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"Her" finds genuine emotion in artificial life

A man falls in love with his computer. On paper and shaved down to its simplest form, "Her" sounds like a terrible Adam Sandler movie (which is redundant nowadays). However, writer/director Spike Jonze - making his first feature film since 2009's adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" - takes a romance that should feel transparently fake, and instead makes it feel sincere and real in all of its deep, intimate pleasures and pains.

Jan 10, 2014
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