This accomplished sci-fi flick should be appreciated more widely.

| Mar 29, 2023

One of the most visually stunning debuts of the year... The production design is outstanding with a welcome predisposition for practical sets and effects.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

A poignant cocktail of grief and science fiction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2022

The clock is clearly ticking and for all of science fiction's visual cues, there's a nerve-rattling tension to Archive that owes more to horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2021

A modern era, noir tinged, sci-fi featuring some of the most emotionally engaging non-human characters the genre has ever seen, Archive is one of the films in years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2021

This climax is so stupid and the rest of the film so incapable of generating any interest that the only thing left to focus on is the amount time remaining until the end credits.

| Jun 5, 2021

A potent and thought-provoking story about a developer of AI robots and how he uses that work to deal with the loss of his wife. A simple story on the surface, with tension and details that give it emotional depth.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 10, 2021

...those seeking their fix of brainy sci-fi should apply now...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

All in all, Archive is good, bleak, shivery fun, and however familiar some of its components may seem, it thrums with an intelligence that's anything but artificial.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2021

For all the familiarity, the movie has the brio of good pulp and a neat surprise in store.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2021

Rothery's soulful, at times surreal SF debut works on multiple levels as, certainly, a very modern ghost story but also as a paranoid thriller, a yearning romance and an introspective tragedy, full of hubris and catastrophe

| Jan 19, 2021

An interesting if derivative science fiction movie...although I don't think it will surprise or startle, it takes something we've seen before and does it in a stylish way.

| Jan 16, 2021

The set pieces that have been assembled on top of an otherworldly location are jaw dropping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2021

Archive is refreshingly non-cerebral - and that's a compliment. It's a sci-fi movie that wants to entertain, not deliver a lecture on AI.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2021

Many changes come at the climax, and they are not all good.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2020

If viewers can stomach a lingering sense of familiarity, Archive offers a sturdy, slow-burn science fiction throwback.

| Jul 30, 2020

Archive honors the great sci-fi visuals of the past and pushes modern sci-fi a little farther into the future.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2020

Archive is a movie that works as both speculative science fiction and moving human drama. Fans of the genre will note that there's no contradiction in that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2020

Archive isn't the first time this idea has come to the screen, but it makes for a reasonably compelling, if chilly, sci-fi tale in the mold of 2015's Ex Machina.

| Jul 20, 2020

With an incredible score by Steven Price, Archive has all of the right science fiction set ups and atmosphere, even if the dynamics are nothing new.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 16, 2020