Afraid explores society's tech fears as AI creeps into daily life but falls short on thriller tension, leaving it a mediocre horror despite a strong concep

Aaron Neuwirth has reviews for The Front Room, I’ll Be Right There, Fly, AfAId, 1992, and The Deliverance.

A sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on California family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment

A new film review of AfrAId, directed by Chris Weitz & released by Sony Pictures Releasing, for film review site In Review Online.

Afraid largely succeeds as a fun genre exercise but doesn’t go beyond that.

This may not be the worst movie of the year but it is certainly one of the laziest.

Afraid is a movie so ill-conceived, so scattershot, so deeply confused about what it's supposed to be that it might as well be A.I.-written.

About two percent of this movie is exactly how to tell a story about AI.

Filmmaker Chris Weitz certainly namechecks a lot of technophobic issues in AfrAId, but it's all cut into an illogical mess.

Red Rooms is one of the best films of the year. Afraid is one of the worst. Why are internet-based stories so difficult to tell on the big screen?

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John Cho and Katherine Waterston star in Chris Weitz's AI-themed horror 'Afraid.'

Film critic Jonathan Sim's review of AfrAId, a new horror movie starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston.

In the new thriller “AfrAId,” a home assistant device named AIA (pronounced Aya), powered by artificial intelligence, holds a family hostage. The gadget

Our ⭐ star review for the sci-fi horror AfrAId, starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston as a family terrorised by a new smart home AI device!

We're all a bit afraid of what the ubiquity of "artificial intelligence" means for us. Our jobs, for media, advertising, and whether or not it will, I don't know, find the nuclear codes and throw us into war or something...

Playing on current fears around artificial intelligence, Chris Weitz’s tale of a family imperiled by its virtual assistant plumbs familiar terrain.

Here at FandomWire, we review the new Chris Weitz film AfrAId, starring, John Cho. This article does not contain significant spoiler information

Chris Weitz's "AfrAId" lays out the benefits and perils of entrusting our lives and world to artificial intelligence well enough. A supercomputer-powered gadget that entertains, teaches, takes on research and onerous paperwork and can even diagnose health issues while maintaining security in the home? That sounds like a godsend. But long before that first easily-forseen…

Siri goes malevolent in a Blumhouse potboiler that’s much dumber than its smart-speaker villain.

NOW IN THEATERS! Let's be honest. AI is going to be a horror subgenre for a very long time. The question is whether Chris Weitz's horror feature Afraid will stand out from what will soon be a crowded field of killer AI movies. John Cho plays Curtis, who I think is a marketing firm VP.

John Cho and Katherine Waterston star in the Blumhouse film "AfrAId" as a couple whose family is terrorized by an AI.

The strong cast in "Afraid" can't save its jumbled plot from leaving viewers frustrated, with more questions than answers.

Movie review, 'AfAId': In this cookie cutter thriller an AI becomes a replacement parent. But neither the AI or the family are unique.