#AndrewGarfield is now in his early 40s, but when he lollops around with his rubber limbs flapping every which way and a happy-go-lucky smile plastered across this face, you might swear he’s a teenager. That makes it diabolically clever of #LucaGuadagnino, a gay director never shy about exploring queerness, to cast OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as the “demon twink” archetype. Whatever sorcery the makeup or effects department has performed to put the glint of sociopathic madness in Garfield’s eyes, it works.⁠ ⁠ But what makes #Artificial so riveting is the balance provided by Yura Borisov as Soviet-born AI trailblazer Ilya Sutskever. Borisov’s brainy, tender, deeply contemplative performance lends an anchoring humanity to a film that might otherwise have curdled into sourness and despair — though there’s plenty of reason for that. Guadagnino and screenwriter Simon Rich mold the material from dark humor through technocratic giddiness to sobering horror.⁠ ⁠ Read the full review at the link in bio...