The Creator

From  writer/director Gareth Edwards ("Rogue One," "Godzilla") comes an epic  sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race  and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua (John David  Washington, "Tenet"), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the  disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan, "Eternals"), is recruited to hunt  down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has  developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war... and  mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across  enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory... only to  discover the world-ending weapon he's been instructed to destroy is an  AI in the form of a young child (newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles).

Peter  Travers  ABC News:  "Technically amazing but conceptually old-hat, this  sci-fi epic from Gareth Edwards makes a case for artificial  intelligence through a bond between a protective human (John David  Washington) and a human simulant packaged as an adorable six-year-old  girl."

James Berardinelli  ReelViews:  "The Creator fires on almost all cylinders."

Justin Chang. NPR:   "Even  the most strikingly beautiful images — like the one of high-tech laser  beams shimmering over a beach at sunset — are tethered to a story and  characters that never take on a life of their own."

David  Sims  The Atlantic:  "The spectacle of The Creator is the film’s real  star, which isn’t quite enough to sustain a running time of more than  two hours. Even so, The Creator is a high-level craft achievement that  is undeniably cool on a big screen."

ROTTEN TOMATOES TOMATOMETER SCORE:  66%