If you’re looking to fall head over heels with a romantic comedy, we got you covered!
From rom-com classics to the genre’s latest additions, here are some of EW’s top picks.
Romantic comedies, you had us at hello.
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Because love hurts, but rom-coms don’t have to.
The movie had wit, verve, spark, and surprise.
But writer-directorMalcolm D. Lee shouldn’t have waited 14 years to do a sequel.“O.G.
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Even so, there’s a weirdly fluffy flaw at the film’s core.
It keeps telling us that Dylan is ‘emotionally unavailable’ and that Jamie is ‘emotionally damaged.’
She walks into her magazine-layout kitchen.
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And, no joke, the audience goesooooh.
Look at the gleaming copper pots hanging from a ceiling rack (where’s my Williams-Sonoma catalog?)!
Look at the bowl of luscious magenta plums (must stop at Whole Foods)!
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Ogle that sexy long farm-style table made for complicated cooking and convivial eating (Crate & Barrel?
Nah, must be something custom-made)!
Get a load of that stuff!
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Specifically, the movie is middle-aged femme porn.
This is the stuff of Santa Barbara book-group literature.“L.S.
‘There’s a difference between like and love,’ says Bianca.
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‘I like my Skechers, but I love my Prada backpack!‘O.G.
Something real, too.
Forget those flirtations with heavy period drama.
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Never mind 1991’sHookandDying Young.My Best Friend’s Weddingwas good old Jules again, her wide smile intact.
Back with the fans who love her best.
And till death do them part.
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The hysteria, the middle-of-the-night jitters of loneliness?
(Though men still matter too.)
After all, how is Jerry going to satisfy his ego now?
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Cameron Crowe, however, has something subtler in mind.
Jerry (Tom Cruise) still wants to be a sports agent.
He just wants to slow down, to reconnect with his clients with himself.
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To be or not to be a human being, that is.
That’s the question that courses through nearly every scene ofJerry Maguire.
America’s favorite star is still on smiling Cruise control, but now he finesses it into a dance.
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He seduces then steps back; he turns on the charm then lets it slide into pools of doubt.
It’s Cruise’s deftest performance yet as a slickster grasping for the decency in himself.
She wraps the audience in an embrace of lost innocence.“O.G.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
‘I want to get hurt!’
But its deepest romantic subject is the complicated friendships between women.
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Now that Wiig and company have built it, will they come?
“O.G.
HULU
Universal
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20th Century Fox
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