The Electric State
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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16
Negative:
20
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60
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldMar 12, 2025
The Electric State is one of the most expensive films ever made, and one can see every dollar on the screen. The robots feel real, and their design, taken from Stålenhag's book, is fitfully unique. But one wonders why so much effort went into a movie that has almost nothing on its mind. Read full review
60
Total FilmMegan GarsideMar 7, 2025
The Russo brothers deliver a fun and very current take on tech vs humanity with a core message on how human connection conquers all in this visually stunning sci-fi family adventure. However, the rushed storyline and vast list of underdeveloped characters ultimately let the movie down. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentMar 7, 2025
The Electric State loses some of the quiet profundity of the original text, but as a breezily watchable retrofuturistic jolly, it has just enough juice. Read full review
58
The AtlanticShirley LiMar 31, 2025
The Electric State is so transparently eager to satisfy as many demographics of viewers as possible that it proves its own message: that a world dependent on business interests and technological optimization dulls artistic potential and human ingenuity. All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 14, 2025
Pratt can do lovable rogue in his sleep at this point, and Brown’s got a spunky young woman down pat. Both of them have some good lines and emotional moments but they mostly feel plug-and-play rather than mining anything new and exciting. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 14, 2025
Ultimately, this is one of those movies where it seems okay if you like this sort of thing for a while, but after it crosses the 90-minute mark, it seems irretrievably a little much even if you like this sort of thing. Read full review
50
ColliderShaina WeatherheadMar 11, 2025
Overall, The Electric State doesn’t hold a candle to any of its esteemed cast’s other films, but impressive visual effects and great music help it from being a totally pointless foray into the wasteland. Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 11, 2025
The Electric State" is just about as derivative as a modern blockbuster can be, and worse is that it skates along from one cacophonous and jokey set piece to another as if on rails. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMar 12, 2025
The Electric State really aims to be an epic, spectacularly shaped, crowd-pleasing blockbuster, but missing the mark so often, it just veers more and more off course, to be a loud, blustery, hectic extravaganza that’s all noisy dressing and no depth or humanity. It says nothing and offers little other than a folding laundry distraction. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesTara BradyMar 13, 2025
The loud bangs and snarky zingers that powered their Marvel films towards box-office billions are fine for superheroes but not, it transpires, for a big-hearted teenage heroine and her robot chums. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJim VorelMar 12, 2025
The Electric State is one hell of an artistically neutered, sanitized boondoggle, awe-inspiring in its deployment of expensive visuals but largely bereft of any kind of genuine wit, humor, warmth or adaptational deftness. Read full review
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Vanity FairRichard LawsonMar 12, 2025
Save for a few likable robots, The Electric State is charmless and curiously dull. It’s almost as if all the money and tech in the world are not sufficient replacements for imagination. Read full review
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NMEJames MottramMar 12, 2025
You won’t be able to shake the feeling that there’s a lack of heart and soul here. Read full review
40
IGNA.A. Dowd Mar 12, 2025
AI-loving Marvel hitmakers Joe and Anthony Russo join forces again with Netflix to deliver a $300-million sci-fi epic you can safely half-watch while doing the dishes or making dinner. Read full review
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VarietyCourtney HowardMar 7, 2025
The filmmakers have diluted the source material, showing a clear lack of interest in making their creation just as haunting, searing and satisfying as the original product. Read full review
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The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 7, 2025
The Electric State is a fundamentally unsatisfying and muddled film, even leaving aside the deja-vu. Read full review
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