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.
17 May 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
9 March 1979, Guatemala
1988, Tokyo, Japan
3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
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.
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.
April 24, 2015
A clever film with one indelible performance from Isaac.
June 09, 2016
A remarkable sci-fi classic.
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.
November 10, 2015
Ex Machina is a disquieting power struggle waged in terms of human weaknesses, refracted through gender.
April 25, 2015
Ex Machina is the best movie I've seen all year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 24, 2015
[A] methodically absorbing sci-fi drama.
