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Ex Machina

2014

Alex Garland

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno ...

7.1

54,323

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Drama Caleb, a 24 year old coder 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. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with Ava, the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Garland's brittle, beautiful directorial debut is a digital-age 'Frankenstein' refashioned as a battle of the sexes (...) a sleek, spare chamber piece"
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Garland brings little fresh to this familiar man vs. machine theme (...) Ex Machina looks cool and sleek, but ultimately proves flimsy and underpowered"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This is bewitchingly smart science fiction of a type that's all too rare. Its intelligence is anything but artificial (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Dan Jolin Empire	"Stylish, elegant, tense, cerebral, satirical and creepy. Garland’s directorial debut is his best work yet, while Vikander’s bold performance will short your circuits (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Trevor Johnston Time Out	"An only-too-obvious ‘twist’ and some clunky plotting – how about those sudden power cuts! – drain much of the credibility from a story which promised so much. A bit more intelligence would not have gone amiss (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland's first film as a director takes some very old ideas and gives them an ingenious new spin. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"'Ex Machina' is one of the headiest and most impressive sci-fi debuts since 'Moon', and if we see more than a handful of movies better than it across the next twelve months, 2015 will be a terrific year."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"For a first-time director, Garland seems assured. His sharp, sparse dialogue and meticulous direction are equally compelling, and the trio of lead performances are top-notch (...) RatinG: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Mark Adams Screendaily	"A thoughtful and at times unnervingly sly film that makes the very most of the burgeoning star power of Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson."

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