Ex Machina’s greatest achievement still gets overlooked

As generative AI is currently annoying the crap out of everybody with faulty search engine results and overly “helpful” chatbot assistants, it would be understandable if a movie about AI isn’t the first thing you turn to right now. Yet, Alex Garland’s 2014 science-fiction film Ex Machina, which is about a man testing an artificial intelligence to see if it feels human, is so smart and gripping and well-acted that the movie makes an irresistible addition to Netflix’s library.