I Am Mother is receiving much more positive reviews from critics and fans than almost any other of Netflix’s forays into science fiction. It’s set underground in a world which needs to rely on robots like Mother to repopulate the earth. Mother’s chief duty is to look after Daughter, seemingly the only human left alive - that is until Hilary Swank’s character turns up.

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Though the third act feels a bit fumbled, I Am Mother is overall a lean sci-fi thriller that's nonetheless stuffed with insight and heart.

Netflix has released the first trailer and poster for the upcoming sci-fi film I Am Mother. Directed by Grant Sputore, the film actually debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year as an independent movie, at which point Netflix picked it up to distribute it through its streaming service. The film opens in an abandoned, non-de-script, and very clean bunker zero days after an extinction-level event wiped out humanity. Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne), an anthropomorphic robot, has been put in charge of 63,000 human embryos and selects one to harvest, nurture, and raise. …

The sci-fi thriller, debuting June 7, explores whether AI will be humanity's friend or foe.

I Am Mother is surely the Netflix-iest sci-fi movie to debut at Sundance this year. I don’t necessarily mean that as a bad thing, and as of this writing I Am Mother doesn’t have distribution, but Netflix has certainly built a reputation in recent years for producing and acquiring twisty sci-fi movies—with varying degrees of quality. I’m tempted to describe I Am Mother in relation to other sci-fi films like 10 Cloverfield Lane and Terminator 2 simply because the original story pulls so heavily from pretty much every sci-fi trope in …