What To Watch On Streaming If You Like Joaquin Phoenix

Her (2013)

In the near future, a lonely writer (Joaquin Phoenix) enters a relationship with a personality-driven operating system voice (Scarlett Johansson).

Why It’s A Good Option For Joaquin Phoenix Fans: In Spike Jonze’s romantic sci-fi drama, Joaquin Phoenix faces an unusual challenge: he must fall in love with a computer’s voice and convince us that it’s a believable, authentic, zestful, and investing relationship. It poses an unorthodox task for the hard-working actor, one that Phoenix approaches both soulfully and sweetly, providing a new-age relationship that’s smart, intriguing, insightful, and telling in our tech-driven era. While it’s a fascinating premise, it easily could’ve fallen flat through a less capable actor. Thankfully, Phoenix is more-than-fit to play our lonesome mustachioed protagonist, providing the right amount of wistfulness and realism to avoid overindulging in quirkiness. Instead, Phoenix finds humanity in a story about falling in love with a machine.

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