Ex Machina review – an elegant but limited artificial intelligence thriller

Alex Garland’s AI thriller feels a bit like a decent short story bulked out to movie length, but it’s done with confidenceScreenwriter and novelist Alex Garland upgrades to full auteur status, directing his own original script. It’s a futurist thriller with classic generic antecedents, all about artificial intelligence becoming creepily indistinguishable from the human kind. Ex Machina feels like an elegant SF short story with a droll twist that has been pumped up and sexed up into an over