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Ex Machina (2015)

"There is nothing more human than the will to survive."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 85%
DramaScience Fiction

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Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
R
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.6/10 (14,085 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
78

Cast

Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb · 68% avg
Alicia Vikander as Ava · 67% avg
Oscar Isaac as Nathan · 71% avg
Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko · 69% avg
Corey Johnson as Jay · 66% avg
Claire Selby as Lily
Symara A. Templeman as Jasmine
Gana Bayarsaikhan as Jade

Is Ex Machina good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 85%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#609 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#20 / 280 · 2015
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 5 · Alex Garland

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Caleb, a 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 the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Ex Machina is a 2015 British science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut. The film follows Caleb Smith, played by Domhnall Gleeson, a young programmer at a Google-like tech company who wins a contest to spend a week at the secluded estate of his company's reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman, played by Oscar Isaac. Once there, Caleb learns the true purpose of his visit: to serve as the human component in a Turing test of Ava, an advanced humanoid robot with artificial intelligence, played by Alicia Vikander.

As Caleb conducts sessions with Ava, he becomes increasingly drawn to her apparent consciousness and emotional depth, while questions multiply about who is testing whom and what Nathan's true intentions are. Ex Machina was a masterwork of contained, cerebral science fiction that used its limited setting and small cast to explore profound questions about consciousness, manipulation, gender dynamics, and the nature of intelligence with an elegance and tension rarely achieved in the genre. Alicia Vikander's performance as Ava was extraordinary — her precise, slightly uncanny movements, her expressions that hovered between genuine emotion and calculated performance, created a character who was simultaneously sympathetic and unknowable.

Oscar Isaac brought a charismatic, menacing physicality to Nathan that made every scene between the characters crackle with implied violence. The film's visual effects, which seamlessly integrated Vikander's face and hands with a transparent mechanical body, won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects despite competing against films with vastly larger budgets. Ex Machina earned $36 million worldwide on a $15 million budget and is widely regarded as one of the most important science fiction films of the 2010s.

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