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<em>The Creator </em>Is Worth Catching on a Big Screen

Gareth Edwards’s new movie is wall-to-wall action, set in a future where AI has already failed to save the world.
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Gareth Edwards’s new blockbuster, , couldn’t have picked a better moment to arrive on the big screen. A sci-fi epic from a director who plays best in theaters (his previous films include and), is set in a world where artificial intelligence inhabits its own stratum of society, as a robotic underclass invented to serve humans. When he started co-writing the movie with his collaborator Chris Weitz in 2018, “AI was up there with flying cars. Now it’s a topic of constant global discourse, hailed and feared as an innovation that is on a daily basis.

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