Her

3.81
    Her
    2013

    Synopsis

    In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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    Cast

    • Joaquin PhoenixTheodore Twombly
    • Scarlett JohanssonSamantha (voice)
    • Amy AdamsAmy
    • Rooney MaraCatherine Klausen
    • Chris PrattPaul
    • Olivia WildeBlind Date
    • Matt LetscherCharles
    • Portia DoubledaySurrogate Date Isabella
    • Spike JonzeAlien Child (voice)
    • Bill HaderChat Room Friend #2 (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      A screwball surrealist comedy that asks us to laugh at an unconventional romance while also disarming us with the realization that its fantasy scenario isn't too far from our present reality.
    • 100

      Variety

      What begins like an arrested adolescent dream soon blossoms into Jonze’s richest and most emotionally mature work to date, burrowing deep into the give and take of relationships, the dawning of middle-aged ennui, and that eternal dilemma shared by both man and machine: the struggle to know one’s own true self.
    • 100

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      In Her, Jonze transforms his music-video aesthetic into something magically personal. The montages — silent, flickering inserts of Theodore and his ex-wife recollected in tranquility — are sublime.
    • 100

      Time

      Jonze creates the splendid anachronism of a movie romance that is laugh-and-cry and warm all over, totally sweet and utterly serious.
    • 91

      The Playlist

      It’s an incredibly melancholy, intimate and yet often hilarious look at relationships and connection that provides a surprisingly great deal of insight into the human condition. It’s both sweet and considered, as well as observant about our fears, masks and growing alienation.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      Certainly his most deeply felt achievement, Her is both distinctly Jonze-like and something altogether different, as if the filmmaker has gone through a software update not unlike his artificial character.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This is a probing, inquisitive work of a very high order, although it goes a bit slack in the final third and concludes rather conventionally compared to much that has come before.
    • 80

      Film.com

      If Her is ultimately better at considering the future than it is at taking us there, it resonates as an insightful reminder that love isn’t obsolete quite yet.

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