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- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Ethan Hawke’s intense, slightly mannered performance… makes the juxtaposition of his period perfection …stepping up to a microphone to perform Tears for Fears ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ spark like Tesla’s magnifying transmitter.
- Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
- Excerpt: It’s an impressionistic biopic, shifting between perspectives while using documentary inserts and more audacious flourishes
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Michael Almereyda takes some mighty big swings with Tesla, but I’m not convinced most of them totally land. However, it still makes for a very fascinating watch.
- [New] | M Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Excerpt: From Michael Almereyda, the biographical drama Tesla is a surreal and passionately visionary retelling of Nikola Tesla, his relationships with other important historical figures and his lasting legacy on our collective cultural memories. Ethan Hawke turns in a memorable and captivating performance as the quietly brooding Serbian inventor, opposite other equally excellent performances from Kyle MacLachlan and Eve Hewson.
- James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Hawke is warm and empathetic, but the film’s artificiality is at odds with a celebration of the visionary’s life and work, and finally offputting. I wish this were either more earnest or more bonkers.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: The picture casts a hypnotic spell.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The structure of Almereyda’s film can therefore be best summed up with the word “anachronistic” and even that isn’t enough preparation for Tears for Fears karaoke.
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Artistic scenes in TESLA glow. What do they mean? It’s hard to know. Futuristic, Tesla’s thinking; he must be up there — and winking!
- Ronald wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Nostalgia, brilliance and bug-eyed lunacy combine to make America what it is.
