Ex Machina

Rated R • 108 minutes

Caleb Smith (Domhnall 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 (Oscar Isaac). Once there, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to evaluate the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking artificial intelligence experiment whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated—and more deceptive—than the two men could have imagined.