Electric t ale with no spark

I REGARD electricity as a sort of miracle, a mainly invisible force which we can measure, observe and use, but can’t really explain. So I longed to like The Current War, a new film about the bitter battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for control of the US power grid. But while it is sometimes beautiful and moving, and features the wonderful Cragside mansion of the British arms mogul William Armstrong, it is cartoonish and shapeless.

It would have been better done 50 years ago. I sometimes wish Hollywood would realise that not all of us are phone zombies, and some still have an attention span longer than five seconds.