Film Forum

U.K., 2014
Written and directed by Alex Garland
With Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Cinematography by Rob Hardy
Approx. 110 min. DCP.

“A computer programmer (Domhnall Gleeson), summoned to the secluded home of his millionaire boss (Oscar Isaac), agrees to participate in a weeklong project testing the artificial-intelligence program the boss has installed in a sexy cyborg (Alicia Vikander). However, the programmer is less an examiner than an instrument: if he develops feelings for the robot, then it will have succeeded in simulating an independent consciousness.” – J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

Reviews

“A stylish, unsettling sci-fi thriller.”
– Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

“Shrewdly imagined and persuasively made…a spooky piece of speculative fiction that’s completely plausible, capable of both thinking big thoughts and providing pulp thrills.”
– Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times