Film review of clever & engrossing “her”

Her2013PosterI resisted seeing the new Spike Jonze film “her” because I guess I was leary of the concept: the sci-fi story of a lonely single guy played by Joaquin Phoenix falling for his computer system (with a woman’s voice of Scarlett Johansson).

It’s now playing at the Crossroads Festival Grand Cinema discount theatre (4811 E. Grant Rd. in Tucson), which is  sadly closing for good on April 20.

 

The film is an amazingly well done, powerful movie about loneliness and alienation, and yet tastefully portrays a lonely, about-to-be-divorced guy with no kids,

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