Her

Spike Jonze had the future of AI relationships pegged before any of us had typed import openai. Her isn't really about AI though — it's about the texture of intimacy in a hyper-mediated world, and the way connection survives even when its form keeps changing.

Joaquin Phoenix is doing something extraordinary in this film: he plays a man who is, fundamentally, paying attention, and the camera rewards him for it.

Hoyte van Hoytema's photography uses warmth as a thesis statement.