Category: Romance

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Me Before You (2016)

Sweet but predictable, Me Before You will likely please those among the target demographic that predominantly consists of women looking to smile and cry, not minding that most of the emotional beats are manipulated and manufactured...

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2010s / Comedy / Romance

Hello, My Name is Doris (2015)

Sally Field (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Lincoln) reminds us why she’s earned two Oscars (other than because we really, really like her) with her sublime performance in Hello My Name is Doris, a comedy with surprising emotional...

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2010s / Comedy / Romance

How to Be Single (2016)

Dakota Johnson (Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey) gets the lead role as Alice, who decides that she and her long-term college boyfriend Josh (Braun, Poltergeist) should break up for a while in order to experience what...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Horror / Romance

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Seth Grahame-Smith’s tongue-in-cheek reimagining of Jane Austen’s 19th Century classic romance novel finally hits theater screens, perhaps a bit too late to catch either the zombie craze or the fervor for Jane Austen adaptations...

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2010s / Drama / Romance

45 Years (2015)

I’ve often wondered, when reflecting on the James Cameron blockbuster, Titanic, how a woman could live to the age of 100, have been married and have children with another man, and still consider her few...

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2010s / Comedy / Romance

Trainwreck (2015)

Comedian Amy Schumer gets her chance to shine on the big screen with Trainwreck, playing, appropriately, Amy, working by day as a journalist at a men’s lifestyle and celebrity gossip publication, but who drinks hard,...

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2010s / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

The Age of Adaline (2015)

Given what lengths many go to to stay looking young, let’s all hope that there aren’t a bunch of women driving around Sonoma County, California, looking for snowfall to drive off the road into...

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Cinderella (1950)

Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...

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2010s / Drama / Romance

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

Fifty Shades of Grey adapts E.L. James’s massively popular book, only truly notably significant because it brought about BDSM subject matter into the mainstream.  With everything depicted already having been filmed in pornography that’s not...

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1990s / Drama / Romance

Titanic (1997)

For me, James Cameron’s Titanic has always been a tale of two halves.  The first half — the setup — is schmaltzy and not particularly well written.  The second — the disaster movie — is balls-out,...