Ex Machina
2015 | 108 min | Drama, Science Fiction
Why it’s a Saturday Special
It earned strong reviews (92%), audiences rate it highly (7.6/10) and it won an Oscar, despite soft box office. A strong pick for the weekend.
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Caleb, a 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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsStrong
92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 78 on Metacritic
- AudiencesStrong
7.6/10 from 15K viewers
- AwardsStrong
1 win, 4 other nominations — won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$37 million worldwide on a $15 million budget
- Buzz & cultural impactStrong
879K Wikipedia readers in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Alex Garland
- Domhnall GleesonCaleb
- Alicia VikanderAva
- Oscar IsaacNathan
- Sonoya MizunoKyoko
- Corey JohnsonJay
- Claire SelbyLily
- Symara A. TemplemanJasmine
- Gana BayarsaikhanJade
- Tiffany PisaniKatya
- Elina AlminasAmber