The Artifice Girl

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The Artifice Girl

2023

1h 33m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

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The Artifice Girl blends timely themes and a sci-fi structure to explore thought-provoking questions surrounding the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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Adam Kempenaar

Filmspotting

05/26/2023

4/5

It’s a film that I’m sure some will decry as too talky… I feel otherwise, for several reasons, including its clearly intentional mise en scene – the lighting, blocking, editing, and the intimacy and urgency produced by those confined spaces.

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Ty Burr

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05/05/2023

3/4

It’s a surprisingly tender drama of ideas that at times reminded me of a variation on the 2001 Spielberg/Kubrick film “A.I. Artificial Intelligence.”

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

05/02/2023

The action is in the dialogue, which presents a series of invigorating arguments about where the ethical lines are when it comes to creating and then exploiting an intelligent computer program.

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Ayrton-Lewis Avery

Battle Royale With Cheese

12/16/2024

The Artifice Girl is just one proof that Ritch can direct independent cinema that is as strange as it is enjoyable.

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Katelyn Nelson

Daily Grindhouse

08/04/2024

A markedly uncomfortable and emotional watch, Ritch’s film feels both unique and necessary, especially in a world where technology itself is constantly shifting from luxury to necessity.

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Joshua Polanski

Offscreen

07/31/2024

The directorial work is impressive but [Franklin] Ritch’s script and performance are something to marvel at.

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Claudio C

@Claudio666 Dec 28

An Original Movie (12,157 – 27 Dec 2025) The 29-year-old programmer Gareth is invited by agents Deena and Amos to discuss a financing requested by him. However, they work in an agency that protects children from predators and wants information about the girl Cherry, who works with him. They press Gareth, who was abused when he was a child, and learn that Cherry is a software he uses to get information to arrest predators, and Amos is his contact. Deena proposes the distrustful Gareth to team up with them to chase and arrest predators and reluctantly he accepts. Along the years, the AI develops while the trio gets old. The talkative "The Artifice Girl" (2022) is an original movie in three acts with excellent dialogs discussing subjects about predators, technology, emotions and how an AI may develop along the years and its primary directive to hunt down predators considers nasty many human behavior. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "A Garota Artificial" ("The Artificial Girl")

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Paul R

Dec 25

Emotive. I really like this.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Dec 9

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Otavio B

Sep 14

Terrible movie. I don't usually bother writing movie reviews online. But this film is so boring, so stagnant, so pointless, that I had to warn others. You spend the entire film waiting for a big twist, something exciting, and nothing happens except endless dialogues that, in a pretentious and childish way, supposedly offers great insights into AI and the future. A ridiculous, pathetic, and monotonous movie.

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Chris B

Sep 10

Good film about AI. The acting wasn't always great, but the story and dialogue worked for me.

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Craig K

@Cracky Aug 25

Interesting. Worth a watch.

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Synopsis

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

Director: Franklin Ritch
Producer: Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead
Screenwriter: Franklin Ritch
Distributor: XYZ Films
Production Co: Paper Street Pictures, Last Resort Ideas, Blood Oath
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 27, 2023
Runtime: 1h 33m

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