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Her
Spike Jonze, 2013

A smiling man in an orange jacket stands on boat with a device peeking out from a chest pocket.
Eschewing the hard, gleaming surfaces of most speculative sci-fi for something more off-kilter and bittersweet, Spike Jonze’s digital romance follows a lonely, mustachioed introvert (Joaquin Phoenix) in near-future Los Angeles as he falls head-over-code for an adaptive operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Is it real machine love or just a grown man’s pathological avoidance of intimacy? “Her” refuses easy answers, though the many questions it raises, alas, feel a lot less theoretical today than they did in 2013.