Alex Garland’s directorial debut blurs the lines between human and machine with all too familiar and now ever more contemporary questions.

Caleb Smith, a young computer coder (Domhnall Gleeson), wins a competition to spend a week at the private estate of his tech firm’s reclusive CEO (Oscar Isaac).

When he arrives, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to be the human component in a Turing test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of robot Ava (Alicia Vikander). However, it soon becomes evident that Ava is far more self-aware and deceptive than either of the men imagined.

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