Pick of the week
The Electric State
In between Avengers outings, Anthony and Joe Russo dip into dystopian fiction with this sparky adventure. A cross between Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence and Toy Story, it’s set in the aftermath of a human v robot war that humans won due to neural headsets invented by Stanley Tucci’s tech grandee. Millie Bobby Brown is our heroine, an orphan who goes on a quest into the “exclusion zone”, where the sentient machines are corralled, after a little robot turns up claiming to be her dead brother. Chris Pratt is a dodgy trader (with a heart of gold, naturally) who accompanies her into a land of weird and wonderful bots, voiced by the likes of Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson and Brian Cox.
Out now, Netflix
