The Machine 2013

Critics score:
78 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Dennis Harvey, Variety: "The Machine" works modestly well, but still wobbles trying to balance its "thinking man's sci-fi" aspirations against the need to placate less adventurous fans via standard action content. Read more

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: A classy slice of cerebral sci-fi with a literary-cinematic heritage stretching back through Blade Runner and Metropolis to Frankenstein. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "The Machine" percolates with an elegantly palpable sense of wonder and danger. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: Good British sci-fis don't come along very often, so this stylish slice of a dystopian near-future should be welcomed by fans. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: The Machine brings little new to the subject save for an ominously ambiguous conclusion about the consequences of making computers more advanced than their human masters. Read more