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Topic: romantic comedies

Emily Bader as Poppy in "People We Meet on Vacation" (Haide Costa/Netflix)

What "People We Meet" gets right

Angelina Mazza
Camille Rutherford as Agathe in "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" (Sony Pictures Classics)

World-weary bookworms crave rom-coms too

Gary M. Kramer
Camila Mendes (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Camila Mendes on taking her next step

Olivia Luppino
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
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Dave Franco and Alison Brie (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dave Franco’s rom-com is a family affair

D. Watkins
Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson in "Mother's Day" (Open Road Films)

Moms deserve better than this

Nico Lang
(Linda Kallerus/IFC FIlms)

The other, better "Trainwreck"

Andrew O'Hehir

Rom-coms aren't dead!

Kevin Craft
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