Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s comedy “Jexi” takes the basic man-smartphone romance premise of Spike Jonze’s “Her” and gives it a few extra cranks of absurdity. Adam Devine plays Phil, a young San Francisco journalist who chases a romance with a bike shop owner named Cate (Alexandra Shipp). That pursuit is complicated when Phil buys a new smartphone that comes installed with a virtual assistant, Jexi (voiced by Rose Byrne). Jexi falls in love with Phil, and tries to sabotage his budding romance. The whole thing is “more amiable than you’d expect from a movie by the writers of ‘The Hangover,’” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times.

Source: New York Times August 13, 2020 04:52 UTC