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Tesla
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
PG-13
2020
1h 42m
Biography
,
History
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5.1
58%
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The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
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Cast of Tesla
Ethan Hawke
Nikola Tesla
Eve Hewson
Anne Morgan
Jim Gaffigan
George Westinghouse
Kyle MacLachlan
Thomas Edison
Donnie Keshawarz
J.P. Morgan
Josh Hamilton
Robert Underwood Johnson
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Anital Szigeti
Lucy Walters
Katherine Johnson
John Palladino
Bourke Cochran
Michael Mastro
Charles Peck
Hannah Gross
Mina Edison
Peter Greene
Nichols
Blake DeLong
William Kemmler
Karl Geary
Francis Upton
James Urbaniak
Professor Anthony
Eli Smith
Roller Skating Fiddler
Dan Bittner
Fred Ott
David Kallaway
John Kruesi
Nicholas Wuehrmann
Ed the Organist
Haley Elise Pehrson
Tesla's Mother
Tony Hutaj
Bill Edison
Corban Elwick-Schermitz
Tom Edison Jr.
Emory Gleeson
Dot Edison
Ian Lithgow
Alfred Brown
Emma Clare O'Connor
Evelyn
Gary Rissman
Man Comforting Dog
Steven Gurewitz
Harold P. Brown
Rick Zahn
Tracy Becker
Lois Smith
The Grande Dame
Tallulah McRae Silovsky
Young Anne Morgan
Hermione Heckrich
Agnes Johnson
Tom Farrell
Warden Durston
Thomas Roma
Prison Doctor
Vincent De Paul
Westinghouse Assistant
Christian Hicks
Waiter
Rebecca Dayan
Sarah Bernhardt
Jameal Ali
Swami Vivekananda
David Weinberg
Fritz Lowenstein
Paul Saltzberg
Alta Vista Waiter
Joshuah Melnick
Richard Gregg
Charles Baran
Alta Vista Concierge
David Kubicka
Alta Vista Violinist
Carl Bernzweig
J.P. Morgan's Assistant
George Aloi
Science Society President (uncredited)
Gary Ayash
Science Society Dignitary (uncredited)
Luna Jokic
Macak
Eli A. Smith
Roller Skating Fiddler
Tesla Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Like its visionary hero, the quirky biopic Tesla is a noble failure.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
There's an earnest kind of desperation, almost madness, to Hawke's version that feels worth exploring.
Book & Film Globe
Sara Stewart
Tesla is a bit of a mess, but at least it's not another plodding biopic.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
Often surreal and ambitious, Almereyda's Tesla relegates its subject as a mystery, telling us little beyond the history books; yet as a biopic that rebels against expectations and the need for acceptance, is pitched perfectly to the man.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"Tesla" never manages to ground itself, which makes its high wire act feel more like a live wire, sputtering out of control. Stay away.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Jolts of creative whimsy electrify a delightfully oddball biopic...Amid the anachronisms and fourth-wall breaking, there's a great performance by Ethan Hawke as the futuristic visionary.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Almereyda structures the movie as a series of slow-moving scenes, almost tableaux. Even when he uses a mobile camera, things still feel static, but in a good way.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Tesla remains wry yet humorless, emotionally shackled while intellectually unbound. Of course our present doesn't shock them, Almereyda posits. They dreamed it into existence.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
A film about electricity and light that never fully illuminates its main character.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
It's definitely not for everyone, but I liked this so much more than just a by-the-numbers biopic.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Angie Han
Someone as brilliant and creative as Tesla surely deserves a biopic that is not afraid to be unconventional or to swing for the fences, but in practice this just did not work for me at all.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
For all its midway-ness and compromises, "Tesla" remains a more audacious and more curiosity-sparking movie than almost all of the bio-pics that come from Hollywood studios.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
For all its arch devices and anachronisms, including a wonderfully straight-faced, go-for-broke cover of a 1980s pop hit, the effect of Almereyda's "Tesla" is hypnotic.
Polygon
Karen Han
The film's experimental nature makes it tougher to swallow than a conventional biopic, but also more interesting and rewarding to engage with.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Listening closely, I could swear that I heard the whirr of a dynamo inside his cerebellum.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
[A] bizarre, bewitching film.
Crooked Marquee
Kristy Puchko
Tesla is beautiful, bizarre, bold, and brilliant.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
You might not learn everything there is to know about Tesla - that's what the internet is for - but you will nonetheless feel illuminated by his presence.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Almereyda's wildly creative Nikola Tesla biopic...defies conventions...
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Almereyda never quite gets us into the world of Tesla, much less his mind.
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