John Hughes built a career on exploring teenage archetypes. The Breakfast Club famously featured a brain, an athlete, a…
In a roundabout way, we have Tom Hanks to thank for one of our very few mainstream gay rom-coms. While accepting the…
The history of the modern-day romantic comedy goes something like this: Rom-coms were good, then they got really bad,…
With the rom-com officially back in vogue thanks to summer hits like Crazy Rich Asians and Netflix’s Set It Up, it’s…
Picking a classic rom-com to complement the release of this summer’s buzzy Crazy Rich Asians is a bit of a challenge. Cr…
It is a truth too infrequently acknowledged that Jennifer Lopez is one of our most talented living performers. Lopez’s…
One of the best moments in the goofy, feel-good movie musical Mamma Mia! finds a trio of old friends donning the gaudy…
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Sleepless In Seattle, which reunited Meg Ryan with her Joe Versus The Volcano c…
In a 2017 essay, Erin Horáková describes a phenomenon she calls “Kirk drift.” She argues that our commonly accepted pop…
For a movie that features a professional pickup artist as its romantic leading man, Hitch has a surprisingly insightful…
Rom-coms have happy endings. That fact is such a given that it’s often preemptively held against the genre. Why see a…
The strongest real-life romantic relationships are built on trust, mutual respect, and clear communication. In the…
At its core, the romantic-comedy is about wish fulfillment. Individual films can subvert or comment on that idea in…
For its first 40 minutes, last year’s The Big Sick follows a fairly familiar rom-com structure: Boy…
If you were trying to find a consensus pick for the best romantic comedy of all time, 1989’s When Harry Met Sally would…
Whether it’s a double take, a quirky meet-cute, or a bumbling female lead clumsily falling over herself, physical…
As a lifelong lover of the much-maligned romantic comedy, I’ve always found it funny when people dismiss the genre as…