Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander star in this AI thriller, where a young programmer is caught in a lethal game of manipulation between creator and creation. Ex Machina | Official Trailer HD | A24 Video of Ex Machina | Official Trailer HD | A24 Caleb Smith (Gleeson) , a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Isaac) . Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander) , a breathtaking AI whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated—and more deceptive—than the two men could have imagined. D: Alex Garland, US, 2014, 1h47m