Top AI Movies to Watch Right Now
AI is a hot topic at the moment, something which a fair few sci-fi works have dabbled with, so we’ve collected the best AI movies you can watch right now.
The Implications of Human-Made Consciences
One big issue with media that explores the matter of AI and its future uses is that, most of the time, it’s strictly linked to robots so that audiences can follow (or fear) physical characters. However, many works go above and beyond to make us really think about the implications of human-made consciences and whether they can truly be like us.
Movies that Go Beyond Action
In the case of movies, we can expect action most of the time (which doesn’t erase the points being made when the scripts are good), yet some famous AI movies have allowed themselves to be brainier and create suspense without resorting to expensive, flashy sequences. In our AI movies ranked list, we’ve included a bit of everything.
The Best AI Movies
Here are some of the best AI movies that you can watch right now:
10. Westworld: The original feature written and directed by Michael Crichton remains a very interesting exploration of both artificial intelligence and the transition into the modern conception of amusement parks.
9. The Creator: Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” is the most recent movie in this list, and it’s one we’ll be recommending for a while to make up for its poor box office performance.
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Unsurprisingly, Stanley Kubrick was originally attached to the project; he acquired the rights to Brian Aldiss’ sci-fi short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” in the early 1970s.
7. The Mitchells vs. the Machines: “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” is a movie you might have thrown into your Netflix watchlist without doing much research, but it’s genuinely one of the streaming platform’s best recent releases.
6. Ex Machina: Everyone loves a good psychological thriller which also happens to be an easy-to-digest sci-fi tale.
5. WALL-E: Widely considered to be one of Pixar’s greatest movies ever, as well as one of the best animated space movies for kids, “WALL-E” also easily earns a top spot on our list of the best AI movies.
4. Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049: It’s impossible to do a best AI movies list without mentioning the two excellent “Blade Runner” movies.
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day: There are many Terminator movies, and only two remarkable ones: James Cameron’s.
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Circling back to Stanley Kubrick, we can’t ignore the massive impact of “2001: A Space Odyssey” not just on science fiction and cinema as a whole, but also on the topic of AI on the big screen.
1. The Matrix: “The Matrix” (as in the first movie) was a lot to digest at first. Beyond establishing a distinct audio-visual style that would impregnate countless sci-fi and action movies in the 2000s, it presented several big questions and themes weaved together using the trippiest worldbuilding mainstream fiction had seen in years.
Analyst comment
Positive news. The market for AI movies is expected to grow as interest in AI continues to rise. There is a wide range of AI movies available, catering to various preferences and genres. Viewers can engage in thought-provoking stories that go beyond action, creating suspense and exploring the implications of human-made consciousness.
