Article 3T3TK Tau review – Gary Oldman is an evil Alexa in another Netflix sci-fi disaster

Tau review – Gary Oldman is an evil Alexa in another Netflix sci-fi disaster

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Charles Bramesco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#3T3TK)

The recent Oscar winner lends his voice to a moronic thriller about a woman trapped by artificial intelligence, which sits alongside other genre missteps on the streaming platform

It's a long and noble Hollywood tradition: an actor scores the coveted Academy Award at long last, and then promptly squanders that industry cachet on the most mortifying work of their entire career. Mere days after picking up a statuette for Boyhood, Patricia Arquette was off solving computer-crimes on CSI: Cyber. Eddie Redmayne took home the gold for The Theory of Everything, and celebrated by bellowing his way through an utterly incomprehensible turn in Jupiter Ascending. A decade and a half out from his win for The Pianist, and Adrien Brody is still doing this.

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