Companion
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During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
What critics thought
A sci-fi thriller built around AI relationship dynamics, Companion earns enthusiastic notices for Sophie Thatcher's performance and its genre-savvy twists, but critics are split on whether the script's ideas run as deep as its setup promises — some find it a sharp, original crowd-pleaser, others a slick but ultimately hollow exercise that squanders its own premise.
“the first great film of 2025”
Chris Evangelista·/Film
“essentially a 'robot girlfriend' movie (think Fritz Lang's Metropolis or Megan Fox's Subservience), but one that begins on astonishingly strong form”
Kevin Maher·The Times
“A robot that turns against its puny human controller is hardly a new idea, but the current anxiety around AI obviously gives Companion topical punch. Otherwise, it veers between the comic and visceral. The colours are Barbie-bright, right down to the pink title sequence; writer-director Drew Hancock is similarly aiming to give us sexual politics in a popcorn box, but with added stage blood.”
Stephanie Banbury·Financial Times
“The film is more sleekly made than it is thoughtfully written... with convenient inconsistencies, a short yet stretched runtime and a rather flat fight-to-the-death Terminator-esque finale leaving things on a so-what shrug. For a film about advanced technology, it's all awfully simple.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“Companion's observations about relationship power dynamics are mostly just Comedy Ex Machina with the faintest hint of Her, neutered with a very Big Studio approach to inherently kinky material.”
Jesse Hassenger·The A.V. Club
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Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Companion
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
What critics thought
A sci-fi thriller built around AI relationship dynamics, Companion earns enthusiastic notices for Sophie Thatcher's performance and its genre-savvy twists, but critics are split on whether the script's ideas run as deep as its setup promises — some find it a sharp, original crowd-pleaser, others a slick but ultimately hollow exercise that squanders its own premise.
“the first great film of 2025”
Chris Evangelista·/Film
“essentially a 'robot girlfriend' movie (think Fritz Lang's Metropolis or Megan Fox's Subservience), but one that begins on astonishingly strong form”
Kevin Maher·The Times
“A robot that turns against its puny human controller is hardly a new idea, but the current anxiety around AI obviously gives Companion topical punch. Otherwise, it veers between the comic and visceral. The colours are Barbie-bright, right down to the pink title sequence; writer-director Drew Hancock is similarly aiming to give us sexual politics in a popcorn box, but with added stage blood.”
Stephanie Banbury·Financial Times
“The film is more sleekly made than it is thoughtfully written... with convenient inconsistencies, a short yet stretched runtime and a rather flat fight-to-the-death Terminator-esque finale leaving things on a so-what shrug. For a film about advanced technology, it's all awfully simple.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“Companion's observations about relationship power dynamics are mostly just Comedy Ex Machina with the faintest hint of Her, neutered with a very Big Studio approach to inherently kinky material.”
Jesse Hassenger·The A.V. Club
Genres
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast & Crew
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