Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” was easily one of our favorite movies of last year (the film clocked in at number 11 on our best of the year list). The heady sci-fi flick — and directorial debut for Garland, the scribe behind “28 Days Later” and “Sunshine” — combined a micro budget aesthetic and contained setting with stunning CG (it picked up a surprise Oscar for Best Visual Effects) to create one of the most eerie and idiosyncratic films in years. But a passive filmgoing experience “Ex Machina” wasn’t. The film is littered with questions that push both moral and existential boundaries, and left many audience members to ruminate over humankind’s attempt to establish dominion over God through machines, and the masculine attempt to establish dominion over women.
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