![]() “Eli,” it turns out, isn’t just a hired hand on loan from the local Abercrombie store he’s one of the extremely lifelike androids that have become as endemic to Georgia’s world as iPhones are to ours. Nothing about this seems heightened in any way, and it’s only when the male model–looking housekeeper wishes Sam a “happy Halloween” that we sense a possible glitch in the matrix. We first meet her during a house party she’s throwing for her friends - they’re all having a good time in the kitchen, while Georgia is locked in the bathroom with her boyfriend Sam (“The Hate U Give” breakout Algee Smith) and staring at a stick with two lines through it. Moretz plays Georgia, a vanilla American girl who exchanges midterms for pregnancy tests when she comes home from college over Christmas break. ‘Creatura’ Review: A Boldly Lyrical Excavation of Lifelong Sexual Desire ![]() Ditto Chloë Grace Moretz’s fiercely tender lead performance as a very pregnant young woman trying to deliver her baby without being killed by robots the “Greta,” “Suspiria,” and “Shadow in the Cloud” actress has spent the last few years cutting her teeth as a B-movie star with A-movie grit, and the raw emotion she’s able to rescue from the rushed final minutes of this misadventure is a pure testament to the craft she’s been able to hone over that time. ![]() Perhaps the best thing that can be said about this ultra-depressing slice of Hulu for the holidays is that it’s never quite as clumsy as its title. ![]() A forgettable post-apocalyptic pastiche that borrows liberally from “The Terminator,” “The Last of Us,” and “A Quiet Place” without building upon those influences with any new ideas of its own, Mattson Tomlin’s “ Mother/Android” is the sort of mediocre streaming fare that might appease genre fans for 100 minutes or so, but will almost certainly leave them pining for the days when original sci-fi movies demanded (or at least encouraged) a modicum of originality. ![]()
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