Transcendence

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Apr. 18, 2014 Entertainment

A cautionary fantasy about artificial intelligence...

Last year Spike Jonze upgraded the AI genre in his wonderfully poetic Her, with Scarlett Johansson's voice as a superSiri. For a while Transcendence plays like a high-tech "Him."

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