Companion (2025) review

Josh (Jack Quaid) takes his twee "girlfriend" Iris (Sophie Thatcher) to a lake house to spend time with friends Kat (Megan Suri), her Russian husband Sergey (Rupert Friend), Eli (Harvey Guillén) and his "boyfriend" Patrick (Lukas Gage) ... except it turns out Iris is a "companion robot" and her sole function at the gathering is to murder Sergey so everyone can steal his millions (which he keeps in all cash).  It pulls off a rather smart move of shifting audience sympathy from the greedy, despicable humans to the exploited female android and she's easy to root for, although it's still fundamentally a #YesAllMen movie (at one point, Iris mocks Josh's "manhood") with no redeemable male characters - Hancock even includes a homosexual "couple" to assert that the desire to control and manipulate isn't a strictly heterosexual issue.  As a January release it could have been much worse and it might make a few people less enthused about purchasing a life-like sex toy in the future ... even if she can be designed to look like a young Zooey Deschanel.