‘Artificial’ Review: Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov Shine as Ethical Opposites in Luca Guadagnino’s Riveting Real-World Tech Nightmare

Gold Derby reports that after its New York Film Festival debut, Artificial is "largely being praised by critics."[2] The outlet also says Garfield plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Ike Barinholtz plays early investor Elon Musk, and Borisov plays Ilya Sutskever.[2]The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "a two-decade chronicle of machine learning and technological heedlessness"[1]. It says Borisov's performance "lends an anchoring humanity"[1] to the story.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Simon Rich's script starts in 2003 at the University of Toronto, when Ilya knocks on the door of Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance)[1].Variety calls the film "the real sequel to 'The Social Network'"[3]. It describes it as a docudrama "meticulously true to history"[3]. The Playlist calls it "increasingly uneven"[4], and Screen Daily's headline calls it "surprisingly toothless."[5]Deadline reports that the film "comes in with a bit of controversy attached."[6] It says Amazon MGM Studios produced the film, then shopped it around[6]. The Hollywood Reporter's critic suggests "the $50 billion deal Amazon signed with OpenAI was likely the deciding factor."[7] According to Screen Daily, Neon picked up the film after that.[5]Gold Derby reports that the film is set for a Christmas Day release and holds 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and 76 on Metacritic[2].