4.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Merge (2025)
Merge (2025)
Overview
Merge is a 2025 sci-fi anthology film directed by Béla Baptiste, Dalano Barnes, and Richard Fenwick, starring Achmed Abdel-Salam, Tatjana Alexander, and Béla Baptiste. In a near-future where advanced technology emulates human emotions, interconnected stories examine love, loss, and identity as distinctions between people and machines fade.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
4.5
Overview
Merge is a 2025 sci-fi anthology film directed by Béla Baptiste, Dalano Barnes, and Richard Fenwick, starring Achmed Abdel-Salam, Tatjana Alexander, and Béla Baptiste. In a near-future where advanced technology emulates human emotions, interconnected stories examine love, loss, and identity as distinctions between people and machines fade.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's anthology format delves into the ethical dilemmas of advanced AI and merging human-machine boundaries, prioritizing explorations of love and loss without advancing a clear political ideology. The neutral stance arises from its focus on individual human experiences amid technological change rather than systemic critiques or endorsements.
Visible ethnic diversity appears in the cast through an Arab-Austrian actor in a prominent segment, complemented by a directing team with female contributors. The narratives center on technology's effects on personal identity without engaging social equity or critiquing conventional identities.
Secondary
Family structures emerge peripherally in select anthology segments, depicted as fragile amid technological interventions that facilitate loss, memory erasure, and AI-assisted caregiving, yielding a balanced view without favoring traditional or alternative family models. The decisive factor is the incidental treatment of family amid broader explorations of human-tech bonds, lacking narrative emphasis on family norms.
The anthology film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering instead on human experiences with advancing technology.
Merge offers no depiction of transsexual characters or themes. The anthology explores human-machine identity boundaries through stories of technology, love, and loss, without addressing transgender experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Merge is an original science fiction anthology film presenting newly created characters in interconnected stories about technology and humanity, without any adaptations, reboots, or historical figures that involve gender swaps.
Merge is an original sci-fi anthology film with newly created characters across interconnected segments, lacking any source material or prior adaptations that establish canonical races for its roles.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.9
5.1
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
More Like This
Progressive
8.0
Black Zone
(2025)
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Progressive
7.5
Deceased
(2024)
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Progressive
9.0
Billie
(1912)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Progressive
7.3
A.I.
(2025)
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Moderate
Analyze Now
7.8
A44
(2025)
Center
7.0
Paul and Virginia
(1910)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Analyze Now
7.7
Where the Wind Blows
(2025)
Leans Traditional
6.7
The Nightmare Man
(1981)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
9.0
Tempest and Sunshine
(1910)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Center
6.7
Scrat in Love
(2009)
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Traditional
8.4
The Unknown
(1927)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Center
8.3
Petscop
(2024)
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Progressive
7.1
The Battle of the Yalu
(1904)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Traditional
7.1
Far From Home
(2003)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.2
The Nightmare Room: Scareful What You Wish For
(2001)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Progressive
7.3
Bones and All
(2022)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Traditional
8.4
Frankenstein
(1931)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Progressive
10.0
Man in the Red Jacket
(2025)
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Center
8.2
Snorks: Bubbles of Fun
(1987)
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Traditional
10.0
Rose Leaves
(1915)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low