Garland was always a hack, you can see it leak through even in 28 days later. The soldiers turn into child rapists after 28 days of no sex. If you need villains in the movie you can come up with literally any other excuse but it just boils down to “men be rapin’”.
I havent seen the new dredd but always wanted to, but now that you say its a garland movie im less interested.
Ex machina is esentially a girl boss movie as well - since then hes only made objectively trash films, like annihilation and MEN, what is interesting is that he seems to have evolved from “poor womxyn” to just general political hackery.