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Critics Praise 'Artificial': A Sequel to 'The Social Network'
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In Short: Directed by Luca Guadagnino, 'Artificial' premiered at the New York Film Festival and has since received high praise from critics.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, 'Artificial' premiered at the New York Film Festival and has since garnered strong reactions from critics, with many hailing it as a sledgehammer of a movie that blends dark comedy with a visceral corporate drama.
The film, starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, the controversial CEO of OpenAI, and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has been met with acclaim for its performances and direction.
Garfield's portrayal of Altman is particularly noted for its precision and intensity, capturing Altman's chillingly polite demeanor and corporate coldness.
According to Variety, 'Artificial' goes back to the earliest days of AI and shows how the technology was invented, developed, and dreamed.
The film is described as a human story that shows what it looks like when people are suddenly in charge of a force they devised that may be much more powerful than they are.
Critics have praised the film for its blend of dark comedy and unsettling subject matter, with some calling it a 'pitch-perfect dark comedy' and a 'haunting yet alarming' film.
Monica Barbaro, who plays Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI, and Ike Barinholtz, who portrays Elon Musk, have also received praise for their performances.
Garfield and Borisov will be competing in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor categories, respectively, for their roles in 'Artificial'.
Background
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, 'Artificial' premiered at the New York Film Festival and has since received high praise from critics.
The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook.
What's confirmed
- Directed by Luca Guadagnino, 'Artificial' premiered at the New York Film Festival and has since garnered strong reactions from critics, with many hailing it as a sledgehammer of a movie that blends dark comedy with a visceral corporate drama.
- The film, starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, the controversial CEO of OpenAI, and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has been met with acclaim for its performances and direction.
- Garfield's portrayal of Altman is particularly noted for its precision and intensity, capturing Altman's chillingly polite demeanor and corporate coldness.
- According to Variety, 'Artificial' goes back to the earliest days of AI and shows how the technology was invented, developed, and dreamed.
- The film is described as a human story that shows what it looks like when people are suddenly in charge of a force they devised that may be much more powerful than they are.
- Critics have praised the film for its blend of dark comedy and unsettling subject matter, with some calling it a 'pitch-perfect dark comedy' and a 'haunting yet alarming' film.
- Monica Barbaro, who plays Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI, and Ike Barinholtz, who portrays Elon Musk, have also received praise for their performances.
- Garfield and Borisov will be competing in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor categories, respectively, for their roles in 'Artificial'.
What's still developing
- Gregory Ellwood also has high praise for Garfield's performance and for the movie as a whole: "In a year of filmmakers warning us the end is coming Artificial is a sledgehammer. My lord. And not that he needs it, but Andrew Garfield gives Sam Altman the most epic character assassination ever."
- With a rating of PG-13, the film breaks the record of being Guadagnino's first movie to not be rated R or receive no rating from the MPA.
- In every way, ARTIFICIAL is the spiritual sequel to THE SOCIAL NETWORK, threading together betrayal, broken ethics and humor — and arriving at a vision as scary as COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT.
- Damon Albarn’s Bowie-esque score ftw." Clayton Davis hails Artificial as "Guadagnino's best film in a decade, with Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov soaring to new heights.
- Andrew Garfield skewers Sam Altman, while Ike Barinholtz steals his scenes as Elon Musk." Beyond being a dark comedy, Jairo Jiménez describes it as a "feverish, visceral corporate drama that proves what is truly artificial was never in the machines, but in the boardroom.
- An essential film." In an additional post, Jiménez describes Garfield's performance as "terrifyingly precise in ARTIFICIAL.
- Absolutely electric!" While Greg Pomes is also impressed by Garfield's performance, writing that he "fully becomes Sam Altman" in "an intimate character study on a huge scale," he also highlights two of the movie's other stars: "Monica Barbaro is excellent as always.
- "for much of its running time, it’s a pitch black and often savage comedy about the irresponsibility in regards to AI that might be our doom. Andrew Garfield skewers Sam Altman, while Ike Barinholtz steals his scenes as Elon Musk."
- "terrifyingly precise in ARTIFICIAL. He captures Sam Altman’s chillingly polite, messianic aura in a brilliant balancing act of manic genius and corporate coldness. Absolutely electric!"
- "Monica Barbaro is excellent as always. Yura Borisov is the real star here. This is the real sequel to The Social Network."
- Like “The Social Network,” the film shows us a digital “aha” moment that takes on an unexpected life of its own, though in this case two things about the technology are clear from the start: It will change the way we live, and it’s therefore worth a trillion zillion dollars.
- “Artificial” is a brilliant but playful docudrama, meticulously true to history, that focuses on the founders of OpenAI, notably its CEO Sam Altman ( Andrew Garfield ).