Ex Machina (2015)

Ex Machina rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 634K votes

Rotten Tomatoes92%

Metacritic78%

TMDb7.6/10· 14K votes

With 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 78/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Ex Machina

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.

Cast of Ex Machina

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  Domhnall Gleeson

  as Caleb

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  Alicia Vikander

  as Ava

• 

  Oscar Isaac

  as Nathan

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  Sonoya Mizuno

  as Kyoko

• 

  Corey Johnson

  as Jay

• 

  Claire Selby

  as Lily

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  Symara A. Templeman

  as Jasmine

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  Gana Bayarsaikhan

  as Jade

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  Tiffany Pisani

  as Katya

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  Elina Alminas

  as Amber

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  Chelsea Li

  as Office Girl (uncredited)

• D

  Dan Pappaspanos

  as Office Worker (uncredited)

Ex Machina facts

Budget

$15M

Box office

$36.9M

Our take on Ex Machina

Alex Garland's chilly 2015 debut confines almost its entire drama to a remote mountain retreat, where a young coder is invited to test whether a reclusive tech billionaire's humanoid AI can truly pass as conscious. What unfolds is a taut chamber piece of shifting power and mounting suspicion, science fiction told through conversation rather than spectacle. The film thrives on ambiguity, letting questions of manipulation, desire and control simmer without easy answers. It suits viewers who prefer ideas to explosions and who enjoy a slow-burn psychological unease that lingers. Come for the sleek premise, stay for a mounting dread about who is really testing whom in that glass-walled house.