Ex Machina (2014)
All hail Alex Garland, one of the few filmmakers active today who consistently makes cool, entertaining, original work. Garland really made his mark with this 2014 psychological thriller about a corporate worker bee (Domhnall Gleeson) who gets whisked away to the estate of his Bezos-like boss (Oscar Isaac), who wants to test out his new robot on him. That robot is played to “uncanny valley” perfection by Alicia Vikander, who looks and sounds a lot like a robot. A really hot robot, that is. Things don’t go as planned and problems ensue.
If you want to be even more weirded out, check out Garland’s more recent movie Men, which is about Jessie Buckley booking the worst Airbnb of her life.
