by Mattie Lucas
Cinema from a Decidedly Queer Perspective
The Electric State | 2025
I've seen a lot of bad movies. Call it an occupational hazard, but I couldn't even guess how much bloated, bland, pretentious, and downright incompetent slop I've seen on screen. Yet, I can't remember the last time I saw a film so soulless and dispiriting as The Electric State - the latest "this can't possibly be real" Netflix mockbuster from Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame).
When was the last time you sat in a movie theater and felt like you were watching something so new and exciting that you wanted to levitate out of the theater when it was over? For me, that moment was this past weekend at a screening of Ryan Coogler's extraordinary new film, Sinners.