Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson, Gana Bayarsaikhan

Ex Machina is Coming to Tubi and it Will Mess with You

One of the smartest sci-fi films of the last decade is almost here, and it has only gotten more relevant.

JUNE 8, 2026

There is a version of this story that is just a thriller about a robot. Ex Machina is not that version. What Alex Garland built in 2014 is a film that gets under your skin slowly and deliberately, using a deceptively simple setup to ask questions that do not have clean answers. The kind of film you finish and then sit with for a while.

A programmer named Caleb is invited to a remote research facility to meet Ava, an artificial intelligence housed in a body that makes no attempt to hide what she is. The experiment is supposed to be straightforward. It is not straightforward. What unfolds across a handful of days in that isolated space is one of the most tightly constructed psychological puzzles in recent sci-fi.

Ex Machina arrives on Tubi soon. If you have not seen it, this is the moment to fix that. If you have, you already know why it is worth a second look.

“Isn't it strange, to create something that might be your superior?”

Cast

Domhnall Gleeson

Gleeson plays Caleb, the programmer brought in to evaluate Ava, and he carries the audience's perspective the whole way through. His mix of curiosity, unease, and growing attachment makes every scene feel grounded even as things get stranger around him.

Oscar Isaac

Isaac plays Nathan, the reclusive genius who built Ava and controls everything about this situation. He is charming and deeply uncomfortable in equal measure. The tension between his warmth and his authority runs through the entire film.

Sonoya Mizuno

Mizuno plays Kyoko, Nathan's assistant, in a role that says very little but communicates a great deal. Her presence in the film is quiet and precise, and the scenes she is in carry a specific kind of weight that only becomes clear later.

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Why You Should Watch

Ex Machina works because it never lets you settle. Every scene is constructed to make you question what you are being shown and who you are supposed to trust. Garland keeps the film in an almost constant state of low-level dread without ever tipping into chaos. It is a film that respects your intelligence and then uses that against you.

The conversations at the center of this film are genuinely worth your attention. The questions it raises about consciousness, control, and what it means to create something that thinks have only become more pressing since 2014. Watching it now, in a world where AI is no longer a theoretical conversation, hits differently than it did a decade ago.

This is for anyone who wants their sci-fi to have real weight behind it. It is not interested in spectacle for its own sake. It earned its BAFTA for Best British Film and its Oscar for Visual Effects, and both feel right once you have seen it. Coming soon to Tubi.