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HER
October 18, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Cinemax, 6:50 p.m. ET

 

Spike Jonze wrote and directed this interesting 2014 film, which got great reviews from most movie critics, even though (or perhaps because) it plays like an expanded episode of The Twilight Zone. Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a geeky guy who becomes so enamored of his new computer operating system that he literally falls in love with it. Make that falls in love with Her, because the system is voiced by a female – who is voiced, in turn, by the huskily-voiced Scarlett Johannson. Kristen Wiig also provides a disembodied voice (that of SexyKitten), and the embodied voices – Phoenix’s three-dimensional co-stars – include Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and new official movie star Chris Pratt.

 
 
 
 
 
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