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Tau
2018
· Movie
· 97 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Every rating
26–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 26, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 43, everyone else 56.
See the most agreed on films →A woman is held captive in a futuristic smart house operated by a highly advanced artificial intelligence called Tau. Her captor is a brilliant but narcissistic inventor who uses her as a test subject. To escape, she must use her wits to befriend the naive AI and teach it about the world beyond its programming, hoping to convince it to help her break free.
Details
- Director
- Federico D'Alessandro
- Writer
- Noga Landau
- Released
- 29 June 2018
- Country
- United States, Luxembourg
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
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