Cosmopolitan India

Big-Budget Romcoms Are Back and Honestly Thank God

It has been more than 10 years since Hollywood killed the romcom. Since Crazy, Stupid, Love served as the last gasp of a ‘great American movie genre’.

Those beautiful, glossy films may have been fluff, but they were more than just fluff—they were made unapologetically for a female audience and often called out class and gender disparities while also being rich with the eye-candy-est eye candy of our time. But who are we kidding…why do we need that when we have a million iterations of the same movie in which caped in the ? (We probably don’t even have to ask if you can quote .)

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