This overview covers the top 15 artificial intelligence media for 2025, providing ratings and scores from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDb. Check out Blade Runner 2049 and Netflix's Cassandra in your movie list.

Both technological development and film writing depend heavily on modern artificial intelligence standards. At the cusp of 2025, these 15 AI-themed movies and TV shows explain the intricate bond between humans and machine intelligence. Our reports now provide ratings across different platforms to offer you better evaluation tools.

1. Her (2013)

Director: Spike Jonze

IMDb: 8.0 · Rotten Tomatoes: 94% (Critics) / 82% (Audience) · Metacritic: 90

The film Her received Oscars because it featured Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, who delivered memorable performances as human and artificial intelligence. The film earned its 90 Metacritic score because all critics spoke positively about how it describes modern loneliness in technology.

2. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Director: Denis Villeneuve

IMDb: 8.0 · Rotten Tomatoes: 88% (Critics) / 81% (Audience) · Metacritic: 81

Roger Deakins' Oscar-winning cinematography elevates this sequel about replicant identity. Although critics praised its technical excellence, the film received a Metacritic score of 81 for its slow-paced progress.

3. Ex Machina (2014)

Director: Alex Garland

IMDb: 7.7 · Rotten Tomatoes: 92% (Critics) / 86% (Audience) · Metacritic: 78

Alicia Vikander won an Oscar for her role as robot Ava in Ex Machina. The film achieved 78 points on Metacritic because viewers praised its thought-provoking moral content, but others disliked its ending.

4. The Matrix (1999)

Directors: The Wachowskis

IMDb: 8.7 · Rotten Tomatoes: 83% (Critics) / 85% (Audience) · Metacritic: 73

Despite earning only a 73 Metacritic score, the film's study of simulated reality is still used to understand today's growing tech industry.

5. Black Mirror (2011-2023)

Creator: Charlie Brooker

IMDb: 8.8 · Rotten Tomatoes: 84% (Average Season Score) · Metacritic: 75-85 (Select Episodes)

Black Mirror explores artificial intelligence's emotional and moral aspects in individual storylines through the Metacritic-ratedMetacritic-rated "Be Right Back" and "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" episodes.

6. WALL-E (2008)

Director: Andrew Stanton

IMDb: 8.4 · Rotten Tomatoes: 95% (Critics) / 89% (Audience) · Metacritic: 95

The environmental film WALL-E stands out in modern AI-based narratives since it earned ninety-five Metacritic points. Its robot character, without words, made a significant impact on animated movie history.

7. I, Robot (2004)

Director: Alex Proyas

IMDb: 7.1 · Rotten Tomatoes: 56% (Critics) / 67% (Audience) · Metacritic: 59

Even though it differs from Asimov's original stories, the film remains influential because of Will Smith's action roles.

8. Cassandra (2025)

Director: Christian Ditter

Platform: Netflix

The German series displays a smart house AI gone awry but still awaits public assessment despite offering unique insights into surveillance technology and internet devices.

9. M3GAN (2022)

Director: Gerard Johnstone

IMDb: 6.4 · Rotten Tomatoes: 93% (Critics) / 71% (Audience) · Metacritic: 70

The horror-comedy has a high Tomatometer rating of 93%, yet viewers slightly disagree with the film's robot companion satire because they find the humour unamusing.

10. Finch (2021)

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

IMDb: 6.8 · Rotten Tomatoes: 75% (Critics) / 88% (Audience) · Metacritic: 62

Tom Hanks stars in a robot caretaker movie that elicits vastly different feelings from critics and viewers, with a 15-point difference in ratings.

11. Transcendence (2014)

Director: Wally Pfister

IMDb: 6.3 · Rotten Tomatoes: 20% (Critics) / 38% (Audience) · Metacritic: 42

Though Johnny Depp led the cast, Metacritic rated the movie poorly at 42 because it failed to achieve its high-minded approach.

12. AI Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Director: Steven Spielberg

IMDb: 7.2 · Rotten Tomatoes: 76% (Critics) / 65% (Audience) · Metacritic: 65

When Spielberg completed Kubrick's unfinished AI Artificial Intelligence movie, he received praise and criticism, as shown by the 65 Metacritic ratings.

13. The Creator (2023)

Director: Gareth Edwards

IMDb: 6.7 · Rotten Tomatoes: 66% (Critics) / 77% (Audience) · Metacritic: 52

Despite its visual excellence, the narrative of this AI war film receives mixed ratings with a Metacritic mark of 52.

14. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Director: Mamoru Oshii

IMDb: 8.0 · Rotten Tomatoes: 96% (Critics) / 89% (Audience) · Metacritic: 76

Because 96% of critics approve, the film remains a primary source for cyberpunk art and transhumanism.

15. TAU (2018)

Director: Federico D’Alessandro

IMDb: 5.7 · Rotten Tomatoes: 46% (Critics) / 51% (Audience) · Metacritic: 48

The film stands out from its usual tropes because Metacritic rates it 48, but actor Maika Monroe makes the performance exceptional.

Rating System Analysis

The presence of three ratings shows clear distinctions between their results.

The different ratings show that M3GAN won critical praise strongly but received more mixed audience reactions than AI's stronger audience rating against its lower Metacritic score.

• Rotten Tomatoes: Measures approval percentage among critics
• Metacritic: Weighted average score (0-100 scale)
• IMDb: User-driven voting (1-10 scale)

The Evolution of AI Narratives

AI storytelling moved from basic futuristic plots to examining social themes during the years leading to 2025. Contemporary entertainment, such as Netflix's Cassandra and the classic film Blade Runner 2049, defend both entertainment purposes and examine actual world problems with artificial intelligence, including social bias problems (The Social Dilemma), brain interface values (Upgrade), and AI taking over human jobs (I Robot).

Current films show humans working with AI instead of fighting against it through AI helpers in Finch and emotional partnerships like the ones in Her. Streaming platforms use AI to suggest content that deepens the connection between their viewing habits and AI recommendations.

Why These Stories Matter in 2025

AI adoption in medical services education and creative work demands these stories for essential understanding.

• Ethical Programming (Ex Machina)
• Human-Machine Coexistence (The Creator)
• Emotional AI (Her)
• Autonomous Weaponization (Ghost in the Shell)

Conclusion

AI-themed storytelling itself. Viewers in 2025 will use these stories to study machine sapience capabilities and digital life permanence while addressing AI creative ethics (the M3GAN dance shots). The way artists use generative AI tools to make movies now affects how human creators work together with machines, which makes these films valuable insights into our digital era and milestones of our new technology era.