A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 70%.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Wikipedia ↗

A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a 2001 American science fiction drama directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a project originally developed by Stanley Kubrick over two decades. Haley Joel Osment stars as David, the first robot child programmed to love unconditionally, who is adopted by a couple whose biological son is in a comatose state.

When the real son recovers and David's place in the family becomes untenable, the robot boy is abandoned in the wilderness and embarks on a Pinocchio-inspired quest to become a real boy so his mother will love him again. A.I. was one of the most ambitious and divisive films of Spielberg's career — the combination of Kubrick's cold, philosophical conception with Spielberg's warmth and sentimentality created a tonal tension that some found brilliantly complex and others found incoherent. Haley Joel Osment's performance was astonishing in its uncanny quality — his David expressed love with an intensity that was simultaneously touching and unsettling, as the audience was never quite sure whether his emotions were genuine consciousness or sophisticated programming.

Jude Law's Gigolo Joe, a pleasure robot on the run, added darkly comic energy. The film earned $235 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.