An alarmed glance at the near future, DreamQuil is set in a world where the air is unbreathable and most human interactions are virtual. It’s also steeped in a well-traveled sci-fi movie past, the one that revolves around the fear of robots — a connection the movie winkingly acknowledges when it name-checks The Stepford Wives, the most fitting and obvious of allusions for this domestic drama. With screen power to burn, Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly star as married parents who enlist state-of-the-art help with saving their marriage. But as the movie adds new technologies and AI anxiety to the rise-of-the-machines template, it lands somewhere that’s more pastiche than genre advancement.
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The film’s director, Alex Prager, whose striking short films have featured Banks, Cate Blanchett and Bryce Dallas Howard, brings a bold, color-drenched visual language to her feature debut. Through that hyperreal
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