'The Current War: Director's Cut' Shines At Low But Steady Wattage
This long-delayed film about Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla is "a sumptuous historical pageant that's stronger on sumptuousness than history."
by Mark Jenkins
Oct 24, 2019
2 minutes
Electricity's domestication is a triumph of American ingenuity. But , despite depicting the likes of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, doesn't feel very American at all. That's probably one of the reasons the movie was received with so little enthusiasm when it debuted at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. (Another problem is that the film was then a product
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