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Review: ‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin

Kaitlyn Dever, left, as Rosaline and Kyle Allen as Romeo in“ Rosaline,” a fresh and comedic twist on Shakespeare’ s classic love story“ Romeo and Juliet,” told from the perspective of Juliet’ s cousin Rosaline.

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

Well, for one: The play ends in tragedy! Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (who previously teamed up on 2017′s “The Disaster Artist”)

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