“Transcendence,” the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister (“The Dark Knight”) is a sleek, smart techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas — until it stops being any of those things.

“Transcendence” tries to pass itself off as a techno-thriller, but techno-bore is more like it. The visually stunning sci-fi flick is all flash but no substance. The Johnny Depp vehicle has some ...

Have you ever encountered someone whose very presence makes you want to be a better person? Meet Tanya, a living embodiment of what Abraham Maslow termed "self-transcendence"—a state beyond ...

Transcendence came out on DVD this last Tuesday (July 22). A movie about a singularity-hoping-Kurzweil-like scientist who uploads his consciousness into the world's greatest computer, it was a flop at ...

I can save you some time; there are weeks and years when film critics have no higher purpose than that. Emerging from the mouth of Moloch in the same gasp as the new movie, Transcendence, is a ...

Transcendence is an ambitious and provocative film about the perils and pleasures of artificial intelligence that is intriguingly balanced between being a warning and a celebration. Filmmakers have ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Warner Bros. has released a batch of ...

Though its plot and premise are pure science fiction, “Transcendence” goes pleasingly against the genre grain. A story of the possible perils and pleasures of artificial intelligence that stars Johnny ...

Johnny Depp is all about making machines smarter than humans in “Transcendence,” but Morgan Freeman uses his deep, soulful and soothing voice to point out in a second teaser that it could lead to the ...

I saw the movie Transcendence last week, and it was an impressive telling of what might happen were we to achieve singularity. Given this is likely where AI research is taking us and that analytics is ...

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