Ex Machina (2014)

Directed by Alex Garland. With Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno. A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.

Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated--and more deceptive--than the two men could have imagined. (C) A24

Ex Machina is a 2015 science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland (in his directorial debut) and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac.

This is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes.

Caleb, a 26 year old 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 robot girl.

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Ex Machina. 244K likes. A thriller from writer/director Alex Garland, and starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander. Coming 2015.

Alex Garland’s directorial debut is full of confidence and wit, with Alicia Vikander blurring the lines between human and machine, writes Mark Kermode

In Alex Garland’s film, an Internet mogul creates a gorgeous robot named Ava, with unsettling consequences.