Grade: A

Summed up: Guy falls in love with an updated Siri, and so do we.

Some days I sit on the couch, wishing I could purchase a machine that could be adapted perfectly to my personality in order to become friends and form a relationship with said machine, which is less machine, and more a voice that simply exists.

Maybe I don’t actually wish that. And Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) doesn’t either. But it happens. And it gets weird. Interestingly, the whole movie reminded me a little of Wall-E, in that afterward I wondered how Disney had managed to cause me to feel connected to an animated robot. Her causes you to connect with an AI voice. In Her, you catch yourself rooting for Theo and Samantha (an Operating System voiced by Scarlett Johannson) and feeling conflicted. Most of the time I tried to feel okay about a guy having a relationship with an OS. And at times, I didn’t even think about it.

But it did get really weird on occasion. Just one reason I cannot recommend this movie to anyone below the legal age (because I might lose my real job). It has some crazy-awkward scenes between Samantha and Theo. That’s all I’m gonna say about that.

And as you watch the two develop and grow, you begin to wonder, “What’s gonna happen in the end?” And I was surprised. It was an ending that made sense. A perfect ending for the story being told.

As weird as Joaquin has been in real life, it does not compare to how weird this movie is. And as weird as it is, it is equally as beautiful. Her teaches us that we never stop growing and developing. There is never a point in our lives where we have felt and thought all that we were meant to feel and think. We are always changing.

Consensus: If there could be an Oscar category for voice acting, Scarlett Johansson would win by unanimous vote. This movie will probably win Best Picture.