Mother/Android (2021) poster
2021 · sci-fi · thriller · robot

Mother/Android

Directed by Mattson Tomlin1h 51m2021
ElsewhereIMDb5.023kRT34%Metacritic43
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • intense
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Heavy, kinetic, measured sci-fi / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.

Our read · Mother/Android (2021) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded sci-fi · thriller · robot entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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 pregnant couple's desperate trek through robot apocalypse.

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DNA · twelve axes

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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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