The Creator
The Creator Genre: Science fiction/action Director: Gareth Edwards Released: 2023 In this review I'm going to criticize a fair few things about The Creator, but I want to make sure that these criticisms are properly contextualized. The Creator is a flawed movie, but it is a flawed movie with grand ambitions, a distinct and impressive visual style, and a sincere attempt to speak to pressing, present-day issues with an original story. I admire all of that stuff; I think The Creator represents a model of moviemaking we need more of these days, even if the film itself fails to expand very far into the new territory that model has the potential to unlock. What all of that means is that The Creator is wonderfully appealing in its conceit but frustrating in how it delivers on that premise. The Creator is set a few decades in the future in a time when A.I. has been unleashed into the world. After a few years of peaceable human-simulant (...