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Topic: rom-coms

Camila Mendes (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Camila Mendes on taking her next step

Olivia Luppino
David Duchovny and Meg Ryan in "What Happens Later" (Bleecker Street)

Trailer: Meg Ryan's rom-com return

Joy Saha
Reese Witherspoon as Debbie Dunn and Zoe Chao as Minka in "Your Place or Mine" (Erin Simkin / Netflix)

The decline of the Netflix rom-com

Melanie McFarland
Dave Franco and Alison Brie (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dave Franco’s rom-com is a family affair

D. Watkins
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How popular widower rom-coms fail us

Lauren Hakimi
Anna Kendrick in "Love Life" (HBO/Sarah Shatz)

Anna Kendrick, please stop

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid in "Plus One" (Photo courtesy of RLJE Films)

Cheers to Maya Erskine in "Plus One"

Gary M. Kramer
Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

Randall Park's journey to rom-com hero

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Billy Eichner (Getty/Ethan Miller)

Eichner making gay rom-com for Apatow

Jude Dry - Indiewire
Shannon Purser as Sierra Burgess in "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser" (Aaron Epstein/Netflix)

Netflix teen rom-com faces backlash

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
"Crazy Rich Asians;" "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" (Warner Bros./Netflix)

The new rom com fantasy

Rachel Leah
(Linda Kallerus/IFC FIlms)

The other, better "Trainwreck"

Andrew O'Hehir
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in "Trainwreck" (Universal Pictures)

Schumer's tepid "Trainwreck"

Andrew O'Hehir
Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders in "Results"

"Results" will pump you up

Andrew O'Hehir
Martin Starr and Dina Shihabi in "Amira & Sam" (Drafthouse Films)

The rom-com anti-"Sniper"

Andrew O'Hehir
Eddie Redmayne in "The Theory of Everything" (Focus Features)

Stephen Hawking: A love story

Andrew O'Hehir
Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton in "The Other Woman" (Twentieth Century Fox/Barry Wetcher)

Infidelity gets romantic!

Noah Berlatsky

When we all loved Bruce Willis

Willa Paskin
Jennifer Egan and Jeffrey Eugenides

Benjamin Nugent
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