2019 · comedy · robot
Jexi
Directed by Scott Moore, Jon Lucas1h 24m2019
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.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / robot, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
Watching Jexi tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Jexi feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a crude phone-obsession comedy with Rose Byrne voicing your toxic AI.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if raunchy humor and humiliation gags will embarrass everyone in the room.
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