Jexi (2019) poster
2019 · comedy · robot

Jexi

Directed by Scott Moore, Jon Lucas1h 24m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.033kRT23%Metacritic39
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / robot, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.

Our read · Jexi (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · robot entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a crude phone-obsession comedy with Rose Byrne voicing your toxic AI.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditycringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if raunchy humor and humiliation gags will embarrass everyone in the room.

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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