Tesla

Controlled, alert, and seemingly game for anything, Ethan Hawke has become one of the most reliable presences in movies.

Hawke finds him in details and tics, a man never able to bask in success because all that happened was he'd been proved right again, and he was off on another obsession.

To watch Tesla the film is to admire its ambition while regretting its follies. Much like Tesla the man, perhaps?

In its best moments, “Tesla” holds its own with the earlier film.

...if you are looking for a film that explores Tesla’s drive and the meaning of his existence to today’s modern world, and the absurdity of it all, Tesla is the film for you.

...anachronistically bold and bizarre and delightfully oddball biopic...