With the production values of a hastily made Saturday Night Live sketch and all the visual splendour of a Sora video, Netflix’s Einstein and the Bomb fails — in every possible way — to provide any actual insight about the renowned theoretical physicist. Charitably speaking, the hour-long docudrama is a blatant attempt to piggyback on the popularity of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, without bothering to match the blockbuster film’s ambition or complexity in a meaningful manner. Einstein and the Bomb combines extensive dramatic reenactments and a smattering of archival footage, but with zero expert input. The film begins with the claim...