It not only takes place right on that blurred line between human and AI, but also portrays the exact point where it’s finally crossed.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 6, 2024

Ex Machina is one of the more brilliant artificial intelligence movies I've seen in quite some time.

| Aug 2, 2024

I’ve seen Ex Machina four times now, and every time it felt like a completely different movie. Alex Garland has created a new favorite of mine in the sci-fi genre...

| Aug 2, 2024

Alex Garland’s cerebral sci-fi feels a lot like an Asimov novel—ironic, considering the movie actively defies Asimov’s own rules of robotics.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

...the brilliance of the film is the way we become Garland’s Turing Test subjects.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 5, 2024

“Ex Machina” works as a study of what it means to be conscious/human...I’m convinced more than ever that we are in the midst of a British New Wave in science fiction cinema.

| Jan 3, 2024

A commanding first directorial effort from Alex Garland, Ex Machina is the product of a perfectly-tuned collaborative endeavor, much like the mind of its artificial centerpiece.

| Aug 3, 2023

The tense, thoughtful sci-fi set in a remote cutting-edge cabin raises big questions and upgraded Alicia Vikander to even greater star status.

| Apr 20, 2023

All the doubts we've harbored through the film hit us like a hammer at the end, leaving us chilled. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 5, 2023

... a science fiction film of ideas rather than visual spectacle.

| Aug 19, 2022

Ex Machina" has much more good than bad and much more surprise than contrivance when it comes to traversing the mine field that can be the science fiction topic of artificial intelligence, especially with a potentially damning title like that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2022

By considering such ideas in an enclosed environment with so few characters, Garland has made Ex Machina an intense, engaging film that plays with the viewer's head and, as the best films often do, demands an exceptional degree of time to process.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 21, 2022

A fascinating sci-fi study of A.I. with incredible performances all around.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2021

Ex Machina is a smart, literate and occasionally quite brilliant film, which will upend a few of your expectations for where this story will end and how it will get there.

| Oct 29, 2021

Alex Garland's directorial debut is an artificial intelligence film that asks the right questions...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2021

It's uncomfortable to consider that Ava might in fact be the heroine of this movie, but it's hard for me to find sympathy for men who only see her as an object to be abused or pitied.

| Mar 19, 2021

A high tech thriller that by and large ignores the tech to get down to the nitty gritty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

I enjoyed watching the small cast of characters conspire with and against one another within the confines of a chillingly beautiful and remote techno-bunker.

| Jan 27, 2021

Ex Machina does much more than simply put the audience on edge, although it sustains that feeling expertly.

| Jan 20, 2021

A beguiling sci-fi thriller asks the audience to decide who's being tested, the AI or the human. There's plenty of twists and turns in this sensational isolated quest for survival.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2020