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Technology is an important part of just about everyone鈥檚 lives, and director Alex Garland explores our relationship with it in the new movie 鈥淓x Machina,鈥� which hits theaters on April 10.听

The movie stars Domhnall Gleeson of 鈥淪tar Wars: The Force Awakens鈥� as a programmer working for the company BlueBook, a business that dominates society. Gleeson鈥檚 character, Caleb, goes to the home of the BlueBook CEO (Oscar Isaac, also of 鈥淔orce鈥�) to see a new project that the CEO has been working on. Actress Alicia Vikander of 鈥淎nna Karenina鈥� portrays that special project.听

Garland has previously worked on such projects as the 2012 remake 鈥淒redd,鈥� the 2010 movie 鈥淣ever Let Me Go,鈥� and the 2002 film 鈥�28 Days Later,鈥� all of which he wrote the screenplay for. 鈥淓x Machina鈥� was also written by Garland.

In an interview with the website , Garland said of the movie, 鈥淚 think we鈥檙e not entirely sure what our relationship with technology is, and we鈥檙e not comfortable with it鈥� I suppose [the movie] is like听鈥楩rankenstein鈥�听inasmuch as [the story itself] has sympathy with the monster鈥� 听My allegiances are鈥� with the machine, not with the humans in the story.鈥�

鈥淓x鈥� has received some mixed reviews, with Kaleem Aftab of calling the movie 鈥渆xcellent鈥� the surprises are delivered as cleverly conceived pay-offs. Still, not everything flows so effortlessly鈥� that being said, this is a worthy addition to the wealth of sci-fi classics鈥� and critic Guy Lodge writing that the movie is 鈥渂eautiful鈥� exquisitely designed and electrically performed鈥� uncomplicated but subtly challenging.鈥� However, writer Peter Bradshaw gave the movie three out of five stars, writing that the movie 鈥渇eels like an elegant SF short story with a droll twist that has been pumped up... into an over-bulky feature film. But it鈥檚 managed with confidence鈥� and writer Stephen Dalton calling it 鈥渇limsy and underpowered.鈥�