My wife was reluctant to see Her because she thought it might simply be a quirky story that had garnered favor with the Hollywood in-crowd.

I convinced her to go only after Spike Jonze won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

I was right. In my personal opinion, Spike definitely deserved it because Her is a sci-fi epic poem—a true love story crafted directly from a writer’s hands and heart. You can almost see Spike having a dialog in his writing head with…Her.

And Joaquin Phoenix lives the role so completely you can’t get between him and…Her.

See it with an open mind and an open heart.