Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

Netflix quietly spent blockbuster money on a science fiction epic and then watched it sink with barely a ripple in the wider culture. The Electric State cost roughly $320 million to make, drew brutal ...

Welcome to Memory Holed, a weekly column from MovieWeb deputy editor and film critic Britt Hayes (that's me). Every week, I'll revisit the movies (and occasionally TV shows) that were culturally ...

With a $320M budget and messy production history, Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt’s 2025 Netflix film was ranked as one of the year’s worst movies. 'The Electric State' had a $320 million budget ...

With artificial intelligence being such a hot-button topic, it does seem like the right moment for a salient man-vs.-machines film. By the time the singing animatronic bass and He-Man Zagnuts make ...

The Electric State may have been one of the more disappointing film releases of 2025 (IGN scored the Russo Bros.' latest a 4 out of 10), but the novel on which that film is based is widely regarded as ...

Then the reviews hit, and The Electric State was proclaimed everything from a stale, flashy luxury, to the actual death of Hollywood. When I eventually saw it, perversely drawn to the chance to see a ...