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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 Oct 2021

With its exuberant images (cats, oodles of cats), quaint Victorian settings, damask palette, odd camera angles and old-fashioned screen proportions,…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 22 Oct 2021

It’s a testament to director Will Sharpe’s vision and humanity that a story predicated on mental illness, poverty, death, and heartbreak…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Oct 2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain has the same problem as its real-life subject, in that it goes off in too many directions at once…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Oct 2021

The film can't seem to stop piling on idiosyncrasies, a kind of willful kookery that mixes uneasily with the more serious elements of personal…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Oct 2021

Louis is a funny, complicated character, and while the movie could have expanded its horizons (particularly in view of the changes roiling…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Oct 2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain grows bleaker as Wain’s fortunes plummet and his grasp on reality weakens by the year, but it remains a…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 21 Oct 2021

Ultimately, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is made enjoyable by its human and feline actors, despite the sadness of the material, and it…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 21 Oct 2021

From Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Strange, Cumberbatch has excelled at playing oddball heroes. Wain extends that line…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Oct 2021

Tottering unsteadily between mining Wain’s vast repertoire of eccentricities for comedy and slathering them in pathos, the movie winds up…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Oct 2021

The more Electrical Life conforms to what one would expect of a Louis Wain biography, the less idiosyncratically compelling it becomes…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Oct 2021

I could easily list a half-dozen movies about famous artists/authors that fall into the same general category as this one…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Oct 2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain tells its story with sympathy, but too many quirks and try-hard flourishes…

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By Alan Ng (404) for Film Threat (5,156) on 23 Sep 2021

There’s much to like about The Electrical Life of Louis Wain — the Victorian setting, cats, Cumberbatch, and its visually stunning cinematography…

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By Michael Frank (47) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2021

At a minimum, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain stirs up appreciation for these tiny feline creatures that have gone from the streets to staining…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 16 Sep 2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is so utterly charming and buoyant that it makes even the frustrating aspects of the film forgivable…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2021

The film charts Louis Wain’s slow, long mental breakdown in ways that tackily oscillate between the pitying and the whimsical…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Sep 2021

Whether one considers said work to be worthy of a feature-length movie is almost entirely beside the point, since Stephenson and Sharpe have…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Sep 2021

Cumberbatch and Foy play beautifully together; the chemistry is palpable, and both performers know how to charm audiences without overselling…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 13 Sep 2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is often quite charming and sweet. But there's an undercurrent of sadness running through the entire affair,…

Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Monica Castillo (380) for TheWrap (3,203) on 13 Sep 2021

As tragic biopics go, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain isn’t interested in wallowing in misery…

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