18 Movies About Artificial Intelligence Worth Streaming Now

It doesn't take a scientist to detect that artificial intelligence is rippling through pop culture. The future concept (and, in limited form, today's reality) has ping-ponged from the wild twists of HBO's Westworld to Grimes's latest acclaimed album Miss Anthropocene taking the perspective of an "anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" (whatever that means, the music's great). Hollywood has been working through these ideas for nearly a century, moving in fascinatingly different directions. Starting with Fritz Lang's revolutionary 1927 Metropolis, movies have been obsessed with the alternate intrigue and terror of computerized beings with unknown intelligence and understanding of the world. Now we have AI movies as diverse as Her and Ex Machina, ranging from melancholy love story to funny-scary freakout and everywhere in between.