Renner (2025) poster
2025 · sci-fi · thriller · robot

Renner

Directed by Robert Rippberger1h 30m2025
ElsewhereIMDb4.6462RT41%
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A computer genius invents an A.I life coach to help him find love, but realizes too late he accidentally programmed his manipulative mother into the code.

Our read · Renner (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller · robot entry — measured in intensity, epic-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 contained AI thriller about a life coach gone wrong.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 10attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if manipulative mother-figure AI horror will unsettle your night.

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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