13 October 2026
Review: Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI's Altman firing
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- 'Artificial' is a film about OpenAI's board firing its chief executive, Sam Altman, with Ilya Sutskever at its centre.
- The reviewer calls the movie sprawling, unfocused and jumbled, with weak performances and a dull firing sequence.
- The review argues the real history of OpenAI is stranger and more unsettling than the film portrays.
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The film's structure, Sutskever's career, Garfield's Altman, the Musk casting, cinematography and soundtrack, and comparison with The Social Network