Time for every actor to take a backseat. Joaquin Phoenix is in the house. He is challenging himself in redefining the paradigms of method acting. After playing the erratic schizophrenic Freddie Quell in The Master, he delivers an extremely nuanced and layered performance in Her. Restrained and unflashy with a strong evocative eloquence, he is emotionally more demonstrative than an explosive Leo or a persuasive McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street and Dallas Buyers Club respectively. The film is a winner - a genre-bending sci-fi love story at the backdrop of machine age, a tender and heartbreaking account of a human lost in the claustrophobic space of the constantly encroaching virtual reality. This one towers over Ryan Gosling's Lars and the Real Girl because of the assured execution of its provocative concept. Scarlett Johansson, the enchantress with the voice, is both exhibitive and inhibitive, successfully bringing out the vulnerability of the lonely man's fragile self.
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