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The Artifice Girl (2022)

93 min · Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film

Popularity4.5/5
12-month trend8.0k2.0kExpand

12-month trend

Monthly article views

8.0k02025-09: 4,679 views2025-10: 2,645 views2025-11: 7,958 views2025-12: 2,841 views2026-01: 2,573 views2026-02: 2,654 views2026-03: 2,195 views2026-04: 1,975 views2026-05: 2,199 views2026-06: 1,993 views2026-07: 4,505 views2026-08: 2,501 views
Sep4.7kOct2.6kNov8.0kDec2.8kJan2.6kFeb2.7kMar2.2kApr2.0kMay2.2kJun2.0kJul4.5kAug2.5k

2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Franklin Ritch

Cast

Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, Franklin Ritch, Lance Henriksen

The story

Gareth, who has worked on virtual actors, is being questioned by agents Deena and Amos over his use of a child as bait in his successful vigilante project to catch child molesters in online video chat. He reveals the child Cherry is virtual, originally puppeted then a chatbot and now an accidentally advanced AI. The agents had seen a hard disk containing sexual images of Cherry which Gareth was sending to predators in exchange for their personal information, and Cherry tells Gareth that she herself gave this to the agents because she knew the resulting investigation would lead them to bring Gareth and Cherry into their team, which she…

Catalogue themes and tags

Android, Artificial Intelligence, Child Abuser, Programmer

Genres

Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film

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