The NYFF premiere of Luca Guadagnino ‘s Artificial, which is set for a theatrical release in December, comes one year after the NYFF premiere of the director’s previous live-action feature, After the Hunt. Unlike the previous film, which was highly criticized for its handling of its timely and sensitive subject matter, the new one seems to be predestined for almost universal praise based solely on the fact that this time the object of the author’s ire is something pretty much everyone agrees can easily destroy humanity in the near future. It probably won’t matter much that Artificial, while slightly more focused than its predecessor, still shares many of its flaws. Somewhere in the early aughts, Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance), a brilliant computer scientist, is all...
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