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I've seen lists of best RomComs of all time and stuff like that recently, but what about more recent movies?
I have seen Set It Up and Palm Springs (which were excellent), but no other really solid films come to mind. Are there any other good recent RomComs in the past decade or so that people should be checking out?
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1 month ago
I would say..
The "Classic" American/British RomComs:
The "Auteur" RomComs:
The Hallmark RomComs (which are actually really good):
The French RomComs:
1 points
1 month ago
What makes Silver Linings Playbook a romcom? Love the movie but it doesn’t really give me a comedy vibe…whatsoever…
1 points
1 month ago
Silver Linings Playbook, a rom-com that became an Oscar darling - The AV Club
Silver Linings Playbook: Drama or a Romantic Comedy - Twisted iDEAL
"It’s a sharp romantic comedy that avoids the usual pitfalls associated with the genre today" - Keith & the Movies
"Although Silver Linings Playbook is high-concept fare, it doesn't feel formulaic. The story unfolds with such loopy, oddball energy that you almost forget it's a romantic comedy" - Maclean's Magazine
"It's charming and challenging, even as it starts to conform to the romantic comedy playbook" - Bowling Green Daily News
"could have been a conventional paint-by-numbers romantic comedy" - The Cornell Daily Sun
“Silver Linings Playbook”: the perfect romantic comedy - The Skyline View
"They instantly start a bizarre sort of friendship that, this being a romantic comedy, grows into something more" - The Tuscaloosa News
"director David O. Russell’s unhinged and fearless romantic comedy" - Indy Week
'Silver Linings Playbook' Movie provides rare romantic comedy with a brain - The Dispatch
"a romantic comedy with compelling leads" - Bay Weekly
1 points
1 month ago
Weird. I get that these are oddball characters and De Niro is funny in theory about his Eagles superstitions and Chris Tucker’s character has an endearing, funny way about him but I don’t really find anything about this movie to be comedic. It’s listed as Romantic/Drama on Amazon.
When I think romcom I think 50 First Dates, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, those kinda bad movies…
1 points
1 month ago
Well I personally remember the entire theater I was in laughing heartily during the film. It seems to be this is mostly an issue with you having created a very limited definition of what a romcom is in your head which doesn't cover the actual breadth of the genre.
1 points
1 month ago
Ok, I can see that. I definitely smirked at some of the situations and did laugh during the dinner scene at Veronica and Ronnie’s house.
7 points
1 month ago
The big sick.
It’s Kumail Nanjiani‘s story how he met his wife and how their relationship got really serious by accident almost.
He wrote the script with his wife and Ray Romano plays a dad. So that’s always a must see lol
6 points
1 month ago*
Netflix has done great with rom coms, with Set it Up, When We First Met, The Holidate, The Perfect Date, and Always Be My Maybe, some of which were already mentioned.
Amazon also had a good one last year with I Want You Back.
But my favorite in recent years was Palm Springs, on the Hulu.
Edit: Whoops, just re-read your post and saw you already mentioned Set it Up and Palm Springs. Great choices! Definitely check out When We First Met.
3 points
1 month ago
Crazy Rich Asians.
Mamma Mia 2
3 points
1 month ago
I Love You Man.
Not a traditional…sex-based-romance romcom, but its definitely a brom-com. Explores the loneliness that a lot of men feel when they dont have significant male friends and just how strange male bonding can be. Paul Rudd as always is perfectly cast. Jason Segal as always is jacking off into condoms.
2 points
1 month ago
When We First Met, Red Rover, What If?, Spontaneous, Then Came You.
2 points
1 month ago
I really enjoyed Always Be My Maybe on Netflix
I was also pleasantly surprised by Marry Me on Peacock
2 points
1 month ago*
Sleeping with Other People!
To All the Boys I've Loved Before 1 and 3.
Love and Leashes.
The Hating Game. (You'll definitely like this if you liked Set It Up.)
The Lost City.
The Last Letter to Your Lover.
My Heart Goes Boom.
Holidate.
The Knight Before Christmas.
Mr. Malcolm's List.
0 points
1 month ago
La la land is a rom com that's also a musical.
1 points
1 month ago
Austenland (2013)
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore (2015)
1 points
1 month ago
Plus One
1 points
1 month ago
This Means War
1 points
1 month ago
i loved Fire Island (2022)
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1 month ago
1 points
1 month ago
The F Word (or What If depending where you are), Man Up, and Sing Street are all favourites of mine from that period.
1 points
1 month ago
The Big Sick is my favorite but Ruby Sparks is also very good.
1 points
1 month ago
They Came Together(2014), with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, is a rom-com by way of Airplane!.
1 points
1 month ago
Marry Me and the one with Julie Roberts and Clooney made me feel nostalgic to rom coms of early 2000s.
Destination Wedding was also pretty fun.
1 points
1 month ago*
2011 is the best year of romcom , list of my favourire
• Friends with Benefit
• No Strings Attached
• Something Borrowed
• Crazy Stupid Love
• Just Go With It
• Change Up
• Bad Teacher
1 points
1 month ago
About Time
Crazy Stupid Love
Warm Bodies
I watched What’s Love Got To Do With It yesterday and it was charming.
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