Sophia

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Sophia

2022

1h 29m

Documentary

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Inventor David Hanson is on a relentless quest to bring compassion and consciousness to Sophia, the most recognized humanoid robot in the world. As capitalist expectations threaten his lifelong vision, and with Sophia's future in the balance, SOPHIA poses pressing questions around AI, the idea of engineering empathy, and what it means to be human.

Daniel Fienberg

The Hollywood Reporter

I thought it was 89 minutes of deeply uncomfortable, viscerally infuriating cinema, like a real-life version of an Alex Garland movie, and I appreciated how effectively the synthetic tale got under my very real skin.

Jun 12, 2022

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Robert Daniels

The Playlist

It’s the hall of illusions Hanson projects that can often make this unnerving character portrait by Jon Kasbe (“When Lambs Become Lions”) and Crystal Moselle (“Skate Kitchen” and “Betty”) so enthralling, yet so disappointing.

Rated: C-

Jun 10, 2022

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

The documentary begs the question: what is life? What quantifies an existence? Do science, medicine, poetry, emotions, and reproduction give us our humanity, or is it something else?

Jul 24, 2023

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

Both Sophia the documentary–as well as Sophia the most realistic humanoid robot in the world–will provoke deep questions about what it means to be human.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 24, 2022

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Jason Adams

The Film Experience

As an examination of the limits of our anthropomorphic leanings it's hard not to find yourself rooting for Sophia to gain sentience, or at least maybe just stop getting that wig snatched off and shoved into a suitcase so often

Jun 21, 2022

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M.G. Mailloux

In Review Online

Moselle continues to refine and rework her narrative nonfiction approach to storytelling. Sophia, then, proves to be her most assured and cogent film, though with the unfortunate though not fatal side effect of also being her most staid.

Jun 15, 2022

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Inventor David Hanson is on a relentless quest to bring compassion and consciousness to Sophia, the most recognized humanoid robot in the world. As capitalist expectations threaten his lifelong vision, and with Sophia's future in the balance, SOPHIA poses pressing questions around AI, the idea of engineering empathy, and what it means to be human.

Director: Jon Kasbe, Crystal Moselle
Producer: Bits Sola, Jon Kasbe, Crystal Moselle, Sally Campbell, Tim Nash
Screenwriter: Daniel Koehler
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 29m