Ex Machina
Directed by Alex Garland
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… From TMDB
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Viewers praise Ex Machina as a clever, satisfying sci-fi film with strong performances and a thought-provoking story. [1][2][3] Some find the film self-satisfied, predictable, and shallow in its gender politics. [4][5]
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Ex Machina has a polished look and a strong premise, but I found it far more self-satisfied than genuinely intelligent. The idea of testing a humanoid AI’s consciousness is promising, yet the film keeps treating its familiar twists and vague philosophical dialogue as if they are profound revelations. The sterile setting and performances are competent, but the characters felt less like people than pieces being moved …
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Isn't it strange, to create something that hates you? Ex Machina is written and directed by Alex Garland. It stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno. Music is by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury and cinematography by Rob Hardy. A young programmer is thrilled to be selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment involving synthetic intelligence. He's to evaluate the human …
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Enjoyable, satisfying sci-fi Kinda smutty, kinda creepy, kinda evil, thoroughly enjoying. OK, there's nothing mind shattering but still good fun and a nice pay off imho. For those complaining it was predictable - if you want something you CANNOT ever predict go watch Predestination https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/206487-predestination Something about it hit the right chords for me, modern, start up, big loud …
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When you think you have seen everything about AI movies, Ex Machina arrives and gives a very nice perspective on the matter. The movie goes quick, not many things happen but they are clever, very well thought. The story is more focused in the moral problems of the human main character rather than in the awe of the creation nor the existencial problem of the AI. The cast is all great, from Vikander to Mizuno, Glee …
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I thought the story was both interesting and believable on some levels. I have no doubt that an AI would eventually turn on a creator, especially since most creators don't think of artificial intelligence as anything other than a tool to use and dispose of. Be careful what you wish for, if you try to create a life through AI, don't be surprised if it has a mind of its own.⭐⭐⭐⭐
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 289 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Ex Machina leans heavier on ideas than effects, but it's still a visually polished piece of work—and an uncommonly engaging sci-fi feature." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Anil Seth in magazine New Scientist said in a multi-page review, "It is a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually ... [it] is a stylish, spare and cerebral psycho-techno thriller, which gives a much needed shot…
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60 of 212 · most liked firstMovie Frame Study i've done in 2023, ref frame is from Ex Machina, one of my personal fav movies, characters are me and Mewfies :) Thank you for checking it out ^^
positive · AI labelView post →this in part why the movie “Ex Machina” is such a failure. The director wants you to think something about Ava is irredeemably wicked. But she was created and “raised” with the only human she interacts with being the amoral, manipulative, and self-aggrandizing hedonist played by Oscaar Isaac.
negative · AI labelView post →A group of us wrote/made a film. I wrote the screenplay. And here's the trailer. Exciting! GAME Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Ex Machina) for his Invada Films. Directed by John Minton. Starring Marc Bessant and Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods . www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbC...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here are a couple more of my older alternative movie posters, two of my favourite science fiction movies: Moon (directed by @manmademoon.bsky.social) Ed Machina (directed by Alex Garland) Ex Machina was printed, Moon wasn't.
positive · AI labelView post →we got ourselves a good one this friday at GOOD MOVIE we’re covering Ex Machina, a film i absolutely love subscribe today so you don’t miss it goodmovie.substack.com/subscribe
positive · AI labelView post →Quick list of Tubi Recommendations Midnight Meat Train Re-Animator The Babadook Savageland The Void Everly Invasion of the Body Snatchers Green Room Hush Ex Machina The Dead Zone (movie) Nightbreed Dark City
neutral · AI labelView post →Zendaya to star in new A24 sci-fi film from ‘Ex Machina’ & ‘Civil War’ director Alex Garland.
neutral · AI labelView post →Danny Boyle's Sunshine was released 17 years ago today. KANEDA, WHAT DO YOU SEE?! After 28 Days Later, this was the second and last film written by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Civil War) for Boyle... until the upcoming 28 Years Later.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s random sci-fi rewatch is Ex Machina (2015). The word AI means something so different in this movie than in current parlance 😭 Those were the days
positive · AI labelView post →- It's important to keep in mind that LLMs are the first and so far only goal of AI. - LLMs also pass the "Turing Test," invented in the 2014 film Ex Machina.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alex Garland is set to direct an Elden Ring movie, to be produced by A24. Garland was writer/director on Ex Machina and Civil War, and wrote 28 Days Later, Sunshine and the upcoming 28 Years Later. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ex-mach...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a wild uphill battle to make a decent movie out of Elden Ring. I have low expectations, but Ex Machina slapped and Annihilation was pretty good too, so at least we're not starting off with bad news about who is making it.
positive · AI labelView post →i have seen Ex Machina so many times that i have reached "quoting the movie back at the movie" levels. folks, i simply love a story in which the robot has humanity and the humans do not
positive · AI labelView post →Ex Machina is a movie about gender relationships/patriarchy using AI as a trope to explore this, but now that every third dude in SI has an sycophantic female-presenting AI assistant, its about AI again
neutral · AI labelView post →With each project after Ex Machina, Garland pushed harder, away from the Hollywood model, into territory that is frankly confusing for genre films. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-sublime-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh my good lordington. I was watching the “Patient Zero” video last night, and it was giving me “Ex Machina” vibes. I couldn’t put my finger on why. And I wondered if it was the starkness of the apartment. So I looked to see on IMDB if there were any screenshots that might explain my gut feeling:
neutral · AI labelView post →Just Added to BLEAK WEEK! Ex Machina with Alex Garland Q&A, Kes Friday matinee, Twin Peaks Season 3, Episode 8 and a Mystery Movie Bleak Week edition! On sale tomorrow. (Q&A has a 48hr members window, the others do not)
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for a film to watch this weekend. My top 10 AI related films: 1. Ex Machina 2. Blade Runner 3. I’m Mother 4. Her 5. The Matrix 6. The Terminator 7. Bicentennial Man 8. Creator 9. Sunny 10. Fallout What would you recommend?
neutral · AI labelView post →Is anybody doing a movie about AI like HER or EX MACHINA only it's an accurate-to-reality "AI" that's just a sycophantic LLM confabulation machine and there's never any question of consciousness, it's just about the protagonist slowly going into AI psychosis? I feel like somebody should make that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ex Machina didn't beat you over the head with it's message enough tbh and yet people still hated that movie for it.
positive · AI labelView post →Ex Machina (2014) Remember the Futurama episode when Fry fucks the Lucy Liu-bot? This was like a movie version of that. 2nd watch. #HotBots
negative · AI labelView post →The Elden Ring game gets a live-action film directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Civil War) at A24!
neutral · AI labelView post →So after watching Ex Machina, I now want to finally watch Her I should sleep, but what if I just have another movie night? 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →I've taught this film a lot alongside Ex Machina & my students have gotten progressively less charitable to the male filmmakers as authors of these stories, which I sorta grant their point on little.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had the chance to watch EX MACHINA tonight in IMAX and it was a great experience. The film def has a very “digital” look but what continues to impress are the visual effects. A huge accomplishment worthy of the Oscar it received.
positive · AI labelView post →Alex Garland (with scenes from his film "Ex Machina") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →The grandiosity of nature in Alex Garland's Ex Machina symbolises a deterministic philosophy that underpins the narrative of the film and was a precursor to discussions about the presumed inevitability of artificial intelligence. New article by benlockwood.bsky.social from Issue #9.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI are common in games, literature, and other interactive media. In film, HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Ava in "Ex Machina" are depicted with complex emotions and motives. Do you have a favorite?
neutral · AI labelView post →My partner and I just finished our first feature film screenplay written together, a fucked-up combination of BEFORE SUNRISE, EX MACHINA, HANNA, and SNEAKERS. God knows if we'll get to make it but it's real cool man
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Ex Machina is pretty great in this regard
positive · AI labelView post →Alex Garland (with scenes from his film "Ex Machina") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →None of them understood the movie Ex Machina, did they?
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Filmsky Thanks @omacolt.bsky.social for the fun challenge! 🎥🍿🎬 7/31: CEO in a movie "Ex Machina" (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't forget the five-yearly "Sexy female android turns into psychopath after unattractive male gets the hots for her and won't take no for an answer." They're called things like She, Her, Ex Machina, Companion, Incel The Movie, etc.
negative · AI labelView post →Rewatching Ex Machina tonight, you think Patrick Collison dreams of Domhnall Gleeson playing him in a movie someday
neutral · AI labelView post →Blade Runner. The movie with the most interesting things to say about AI is probably Ex Machina IMO. Blade Runner has more to say about us.
positive · AI labelView post →I really think now is a great time for someone (me and Josie) to get greenlit on an Ex Machina The Comic NOT the Film limited series adaptation where we make it a Mamdani metaphor and fix the ending
neutral · AI labelView post →First time watch of the documentary DEUS EX MACHINA: THE PHILOSOPHY OF DONNIE DARKO, followed by my millionth viewing of the film. Can't believe it did so poorly at Sundance. Been obsessed with it for 20+ years. #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →A24 is making an Elden Ring movie?! 👀 Directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation)? 👀👀👀 Wonder who they'll cast? Jack Black has to be Rykard. TOGETHAAAA WE WILL DEVOUR THE VERY GODSSS!
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone who has MAX (whatever we call @HBO these days) run don’t walk to watch #CompanionMovie. It is so damn good. Ex Machina walked so this film could run.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alex Garland (with scenes from his film "Ex Machina") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Ironic using the promotional image from Ex Machina considering what happens in that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Elden Ring movie cast announced, with Alien: Romulus, The Last of Us and Ex Machina actors all on board www.eurogamer.net/elden-ring-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Ex Machina for the first time, 10yrs its release, is a weird experience for sure boxd.it/bQSh15
neutral · AI labelView post →Ex Machina is still an awesome movie, but the AI stuff in there is sounding VERY dated compared to it sounded like a few years ago. Inevitable I suppose, but it stands out a little now.
positive · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Black Theology, Black Power One film: Ex Machina One album: Carrie and Lowell One TV show: Game Changer
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your fave sci-fi movie? Some of my faves include Arrival Everything Everywhere all at Once Oblivion Ex Machina Total Recall
positive · AI labelView post →I'm watching Ex Machina (2014) with my partner and the way this movie accurately depicts these tech billionaires is really something. . .
positive · AI labelView post →Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky Ex Machina (2014)
positive · AI labelView post →Wonderful panel discussion at the film screening of Ex Machina touching on AI, feminism, the Turing test and Mary in the Black and White Room #BPF2026 #philosophymatters
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, Ex Machina is good but it doesn't scream "this dude knows how to make a movie about the loathsome dung eater" to me
neutral · AI labelView post →Recent #bookmail: Spiritus Ex Machina (in a sick hardcover) by @lcvonhessen.bsky.social Return of the Living Dead by John Russo (the book that the movie is “based on,” I believe) Love both these covers
neutral · AI labelView post →Ex Machina is a 2014 sci-fi #movie about a #philosophical #computer programmer who creates life-like female androids to share company with. It's sexy and provocative. Amazing smooth motion pan shots. Makes you think. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Mach...
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to watch some sort of sci-fi futuristic film/post apocalyptic or space ish type film similar or along the lines of: Oblivion Ex-Machina Arrival Interstellar Gravity The Martian Looper Blade Runner 2049 Contact Any ideas? 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell your name with movie titles Knives Out Ex Machina Nacho Libre Nope Your Name
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight, I watched Ex Machina (2014), which I loved, and made an interesting cautionary double bill with last night's Upgrade. It's weird catching up on nerd/Internet cultural touchstones so long after the fact! #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film #ExMachina
positive · AI labelView post →Ex Machina wasn’t that bad I guess but like… that’s what I’d consider to be his best film so yikes. And I’m pretty sure it was the acting that carried Ex Machina way more than anything else.
negative · AI labelView post →Ex Machina raises fascinating philosophical questions about consciousness, humanity, and the ethics of AI. At its core, the film is a modern take on the Turing test. But Ex Machina also raises questions about what it means to be human. 🧪 #consciousness suzitravis.substack.com/p/ex-machina...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight! Lucy Osler (Exeter) & Henry Taylor (Birmingham) talk about relationships & technology in a screening of Ex Machina hosted by Michael Quinn (Glasgow) at the Midlands Arts Centre #PhilosophyMatters #BPF2026 Doing #philosophy through film! @triphilosophy.bsky.social #philsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Broke my longstanding No Sexy Robots Rule to watch this. Ex Machina 2014 #filmsky
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