This article contains spoilers for The Electric State, which is now streaming on Netflix. Lately, streaming originals have been competing with theatrical releases, so Netflix took a bold risk with The ...

“The Electric State” is a crisis of tone, its circuits fried by shockingly clichéd writing. In a fictionalized 1990, humanity suffered massive casualties in a war that began when robots rebelled ...

If an algorithm designed a classic, big-screen spectacle for the small-screen age, “The Electric State” probably wouldn’t be too far off the mark. This is an Amblin-inspired, big-budget adventure with ...