The poems confused me. I just couldn't connect with them at all. I couldn't find a flow in them, reading them out loud made me stumble and stutter. What a found instead were themes I thought of as very self-indulgent. It's like Carloto decided she was going to be a poet and then begun living and interpreting life accordingly. Her (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on August 17, 2015 . Retrieved November 12, 2022. Samantha convinces Theodore to go on a blind date with a woman that a friend has been trying to set him up with. The date goes well, but when Theodore hesitates to promise to see her again, she insults him and leaves. While talking about relationships with Samantha, Theodore explains that he briefly dated his neighbor Amy in college, but they are now just friends and Amy is married to their mutual friend Charles. After a verbal sexual encounter, Theodore and Samantha develop a relationship that reflects positively in Theodore's writing and well-being, and in Samantha's enthusiasm to grow and learn. Amy later reveals that she is divorcing Charles after a trivial fight. She admits to Theodore that she has befriended a feminine A.I. that Charles left behind, and Theodore also confesses that he is dating his operating system's A.I.

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There's lots of emotion there, but the language is too simultaneously straightforward and vague for me to really enjoy. 2.5 stars. Anna Shechtman (January 3, 2014). "What's Missing From Her". Slate. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 . Retrieved February 13, 2015. Kroll, Justin (October 20, 2011). "Carey Mulligan boards pics for Coens, Spike Jonze". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on December 18, 2013 . Retrieved December 4, 2013. Richard Roeper said that the film was "one of the more original, hilarious and even heartbreaking stories of the year" and called Phoenix "perfectly cast". [53] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times named it "at once a brilliant conceptual gag and a deeply sincere romance." [54] Claudia Puig of USA Today called the performance of Phoenix and Johansson "sensational" and "pitch-perfect", respectively. She further praised the film for being "inventive, intimate and wryly funny". [55] Scott Mendelson of Forbes called Her "a creative and empathetic gem of a movie", praising Johansson's "marvelous vocal performance" and the supporting performances of Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Amy Adams. [56] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail said that the film was "gentle and weird", praised its humor, and opined that it was more similar to Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York than Jonze's Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. However, Lacey also stated that Phoenix's performance was "authentically vulnerable", but that "his emotionally arrested development also begins to weigh the film down." [57]