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IMDb rating 7.7
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Critic Matt Zoller Seitz
rated 10

The entire story is emotionally and geographically intimate, at times suffocating, unfolding in and around Nathan's stronghold.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

...brings to mind crisp speculative sci-fi prose, before taking an arbitrary left turn into the territory of corny slasher thrillers.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Dan Jolin
rated 8

Stylish, elegant, tense, cerebral, satirical and creepy. Garland’s directorial debut is his best work yet...

Read full review at Empire
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 8

...a dazzlingly good-looking technological thriller that occasionally dresses its weightier questions of the nature of intelligence – both artificial and natural – in the clothing of a somewhat salacious exploitation movie...

Read full review at The Guardian
Stefan Karlsson
rated 4

Very interesting film

9 months ago
Jerome
rated 10

En favorit i repris

1 year ago
Critic Mathias Ravn
rated 10

Som kammerspil kunne den opføres i teateret, for plotmekanismerne er klassiske, mens trekanten mellem Caleb, Nathan og Ava rummer alt det, der skal til for at fremstille kanon.

Read full review at Soundvenue
Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup
rated 8

I Garlands hænder er skabelsesberetningen blevet et ildevarslende skakspil mellem to kvikke, men væsensforskellige mænd - og deres kreation.

Read full review at Cinemazone

Cast & Crew

Alex Garland
Director
Alex Garland
Writer
Oscar Isaac
As Nathan Bateman
Domhnall Gleeson
As Caleb Smith
Sonoya Mizuno
As Kyoko

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Ex Machina is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Garland. The movie follows Caleb, a young programmer who wins a contest to spend a week at the remote home of Nathan, the reclusive CEO of Blue Book, the world's largest search engine company. Upon his arrival, Caleb discovers that he has been brought there to participate in an experiment to test the limits of Ava, an artificial intelligence housed in a stunning robot body. As Caleb becomes more and more entranced with Ava's intelligence and beauty, he begins to question Nathan's true motives and whether he can trust his own perceptions. The movie explores themes of artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the blurred lines between man and machine. With its tense atmosphere and striking visuals, Ex Machina is a gripping thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Ex Machina include Interstellar, Arrival, A Quiet Place Part II, Blade Runner 2049, Passengers, Proximity.