Ex Machina
Caleb Smith, a programmer at the world';s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan';s latest experiment in artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
1988, Tokyo, Japan
17 May 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
9 March 1979, Guatemala
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
June 09, 2016
A remarkable sci-fi classic.
May 28, 2016
A crackling good entertainment, a brainy science fiction picture executed in a clean, concise style, with a narrative as logical as it is unpredictable.
May 23, 2016
Despite Ava's revealing circuitry, it is the notable sort of science fiction film that is far more reliant on ideas than effects.
February 24, 2017
Alex Garland's Ex Machina is a chilling view of the future of AI, brought to captivating life through the performances of Isaac, Gleeson, and Vikander.
April 24, 2015
[A] methodically absorbing sci-fi drama.
February 28, 2017
[Isaac] is superb as a psychopathic Steve Jobs type in Ex Machina, a creepily sexualised but ultimately impressive little sci-fi thriller directed by the British novelist Alex Garland.
April 24, 2015
Garland's primary concern is his flesh-and-blood characters, even though they are not nearly as showy (or beautiful) as his main attraction, the vulnerable, delicate girl with a heart of steel and wires.
October 14, 2015
Ex Machina has a precise visual sheen that evokes David Fincher, and earns the sudden, quiet, powerful scares of his best work.
July 14, 2016
Alex Garland's Ex Machina uses a compelling, well-contained story to examine society's growing anxieties, something he's made a habit of doing throughout his career.
April 25, 2015
Ex Machina is the best movie I've seen all year.
April 24, 2015
A clever film with one indelible performance from Isaac.
November 10, 2015
Ex Machina is a disquieting power struggle waged in terms of human weaknesses, refracted through gender.
