Her (7 out of a 10)

A sweet little ride through a non-apocalyptic future. I prefer pillaging and scrounging in the future and the thought that all the fish and bees will be long gone and humanity will be on its last peg leg waiting to die. But this is ok too.

Classic man meets sexy operating system AI Sleepless in Seattle with some strange sexytime thrown in for the tweens.

It follows a predictable love story pattern. What stands out most is the setting. It was shot in Japan to look like a futuristic American city; presumably clean, bumless, and full of whites. It is a world where most people are casually cool with humans dating robots even though Futurama taught us all what that could lead to:



Throw in a dash of a quirky job of 'writing' handwritten love letters for other people and a little of this guy:

and you got yourself an Oscar nominated film right there.

The Oscars are a little thin this year. Blue Jasmine was quite bleh. Honestly Gravity has pulled at the ole heartstrings and brainbone more than any other film.