New in Theaters: ‘Transcendence’

Remember in the 1982version of Disney’sTron, where Jeff Bridges get zapped by a computer’s scanning device and somehow magically translated into bits of data that are reassembled inside the hard drive as a living, functioning being? Cool, but didn’t exactly make sense. The new Johnny Depp artificial-intelligence thriller Transcendenceis kind of like that, only without any of those cool light cycles.

Transcendence opens everywhere on Friday. My review is atFilm Journal International:

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