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Her (2013)
Scarlett Johansson pretends to be an "operating system", with whom the lonely Joaquin Phoenix falls in love, but she clearly is just Scarlett Johansson reading her lines, and filmmaker Spike Jonze tries to make it all weighty and romantic by throwing in sentimental music by Arcade Fire. This film operates in the what-if-machines-became-human territory, like an adult version of Spielberg's A.I. But as with many entries in this sub-genre, Her cannot hide from the fact that it was obviously written by a human impersonating a machine rather than vice versa. It's got platitude all over it, even when it tries to be clever.
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