
Caleb, a 26 year old 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. 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 the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.... (Full plot summary below)
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Caleb, a 26 year old 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. 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 the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
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| The Straits Times (Singapore)John LuiThere are a dozen reasons to watch this little sci-fi chamber piece about two men and a babe-bot, but the top reason would be for the seamless intertwining of topicality and story. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomWhat holds the audience is a dark undercurrent of not so much dread as uncertainty. Your senses tell you that something is off-kilter, yet you can't place your finger on what it is. |
| The Young FolksAllyson JohnsonIt is a pounding psychological thriller that plants its seeds of doubt from its opening cues and builds to a tremendously affecting crescendo. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA thought-provoking thriller guaranteed to keep you enthralled while reassessing the meaning of consciousness |
| ChristyLemire.comChristy LemireEx Machina is the best movie I've seen all year. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaA riveting sci-fi investigation into humankind's experiments with A.I. (with pages from Spike Jonze's Her and Stanley Kubrick's 2001), Ex Machina marks the extremely able directing debut of British writer Alex Garland, of the novels "The Beach" and "The Tesseract," and of the screenplays for Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" . . . and "Sunshine." |
| National PostChris KnightThis is [Garland's] first turn as director, and it suits him; he's created a cautionary tale that entertains even as it forces us to think. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"Ex Machina" is a tense tale of artificial love so intelligently crafted and edgy that I adored it myself. |
| Columbus AliveBrad KeefeEvokes Stanley Kubrick as much as the similarly excellent Under the Skin last year. A must-see for fans of either. |
| MetroActiveRichard von BusackA masterpiece. Alex Garland puts teeth and a chill into what has either been an empty sci-fi threat, or else has been sentimentalized to death, as in the very bad Chappie. |