Ex Machina

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

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

...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...

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