Synopsis
Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.
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Cast
- Adam DevinePhil
- Alexandra ShippCate Finnegan
- Rose ByrneJexi (voice)
- Ron FunchesCraig
- Charlyne YiElaine
- Michael PeñaKai
- Wanda SykesDenice
- Kid CudiKid Cudi
- Justin HartleyBrody
- Gavin RootPhil (10 Years)
Recommendations
- 70
The New York Times
While its mode of argumentation gets weaker as the standard-issue boy-meets-girl-meets-carpe-diem plot progresses, the appealing cast and brisk running time help “Jexi” not wear out its welcome. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Although the title is confounding and perhaps the movie’s worst misstep, it’s Byrne’s digitized and stilted delivery that earns the biggest laughs. - 60
Variety
Lucas and Moore write some whiplash funny lines, and since the film is just a throwaway, you can enjoy it on a trivial synthetic revenge-of-the-nerd level. - 42
IndieWire
What we’re left with is a benign, artless, nothing of a movie that feels cobbled together with the same app-driven, gig-economy mentality that Phil is trying to disavow. Entire characters are ordered à la carte and forgotten about as soon as they leave our sight, as “Jexi” races across its story with the listlessness of someone blankly scrolling through their social media feeds. - 42
The Verge
It would be easier to buy Jexi’s more intentional absurdities if its reality wasn’t so elastic, stretching to accommodate poorly staged large-scale slapstick. - 33
The A.V. Club
Surely, bland cultural insights can’t defeat a film whose main attraction is the promise of stupid, raunchy fun? Reader, Jexi fails even at that, as it awkwardly struggles across its slim running time to land a single one of its existentially painful, seemingly bot-generated jokes. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Nearly everything misfires here — bizarrely so, since we can see where the laughs should come, how they would work, and how a more competent movie would get from A to Z. (To be fair, some jokes do land, just not as satisfyingly as you'd hope.) - 25
Movie Nation
Devine? Still an acquired taste that defies acquisition.
