Review pans Guadagnino's OpenAI drama 'Artificial' as a sprawling, unfocused mess
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-14
Shakeel Hashim reviews Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI drama Artificial (Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever), arguing the film is neither charming nor scary enough to explain why Sutskever joined — and later turned on — Altman. Key points: the film nominally focuses on the board's firing of Altman but becomes a maximalist jumble; the first act races through Sutskever's career (meeting Hinton in 2003, LeCun cameos, the company auction, Google HQ without Demis Hassabis); technical asides like backpropagation explanations drag without dramatic purpose; and the result is less gripping than reality.
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