2022 · sci-fi · mystery · thriller
Wifelike
Directed by James Bird1h 46m2022
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.
Our read: Wifelike (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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