Ex Machina
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Ex Machina

As I watched this movie, one thought kept occurring to me: This is what A.I. might have looked like had Stanley Kubrick directed it himself. Despite my feelings toward both Kubrick and to Spielberg's flawed version of A.I., I knew this thought wasn't a bad thing, or at least I wasn't associating it with a criticism of Ex Machina. And it certainly wasn't a knock against Alex Garland, who makes his directorial debut here. No, in fact, it was quite the opposite. This is a film that deals with artificial intelligence in a realistic and frank manner that is rarely…
Hello, My Name is Doris
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Hello, My Name is Doris

    Cast: Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Stephen Root, Peter Gallagher, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Don Stark, Tyne Daly, Natasha Lyonne, Rich Sommer, Caroline Aaron Director: Michael Showalter Screenwriters: Laura Terruso, Michael Showalter Rated: Not Yet Rated Runtime: 95 min Doris (Sally Field) is a 60-year-old woman who is learning to connect with others again after her mother passes away. She is eccentric, to the point of being a hipster to the younger crowd. She becomes obsessed with a man thirty years her junior, and desperately pursues him, with the help of her best friend’s granddaughter and a self-help seminar run by…