I went into Mad Max: Fury Road excited as could be for two hours of the eye-popping, death-defying sci-fi road-rage lunacy the movie’s trailers had promised me. So why did I feel so unfulfilled when I got exactly that? I’d been...

Alex Garland’s résumé reads like a laundry list of recent sci-fi and horror cult hits, with screenplay credits including 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), and Dredd (2012). His latest, Ex Machina, may stand to follow that ...

Ex Machina may not be quite as profound an “ideas” movie as writer-director Alex Garland thinks it is, but I’m willing to cut it some slack for at least taking the shot. Garland’s film is intimate and intensely character-driven...