New in Theaters: ‘Her’

Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Her’: Loving what’s not there

Everyone always says that they justlovethis phone or that gadget. So it makes sense that Spike Jonze’s visionary but powerfully naive new sci-fi rom-comHer would take that romantic displacement to its ultimate conclusion by having a guy (Joaquin Phoenix) fall in love with his new operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).

Her opens this week. My review is atFilm Racket:

In the future, computers will be not only our friends and lovers, they’...