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Gone are the days of the rom-com drought and we have streaming to thank for that. While it's not the best rom-com of 2026 — that award goes to People We Meet on Vacation or Voicemails for Isabelle — The Love Hypothesis is a solid, fun, and hilarious addition to what has been an exceptional year for the genre. Led by Lili Reinhart, Tom Bateman,...
As the name Crew Girl implies, the new Netflix series follows Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau), an award-winning young rower destined to compete at Stanford. But the YA series paddles itself into the waters of outrageous tropes of the genre. After her hotelier father (Byron Lawson) is exposed for fraud and abandons her and her mother Ella (Jessica...
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Queer women of all ages should run, not walk, to watch the Girls Like Girls movie, a new lesbian teen romance now streaming on Peacock. Directed by Hayley Kiyoko, and co-written by Kiyoko and Stefanie Scott, the film is based on the music video for Kiyoko’s 2015 single of the same name. Maya da Costa, in a phenomenal feature debut, stars as...
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At first glance, Netflix's enchanting new period drama My Brilliant Career feels like just the latest in a long line of modern adaptations that drop anachronistic needledrops and sexy scenes to appeal to contemporary audiences. However, the themes of My Brilliant Career — based on Miles Franklin's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name — ...
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I'll be the first one to admit that I slept on Prime Video's My Lady Jane precisely because it was advertised as a girlboss rewrite of Tudor history. What Amazon should have led with, instead, is that it's actually a romantasy series where Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) is married to a hot guy (Edward Bluemel) cursed to spend his days as a horse....
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Zoey Deutch's most recent rom-com, Voicemails for Isabelle, has made waves, but let's not forget her other iconic Netflix rom-com film, Set It Up. Deutch and Glen Powell play two assistants who attempt to set their bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) up in order to get some much deserved free time. Naturally, they fall in love with each other along...
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Written and directed by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A., Scrambled), Voicemails for Isabelle—now streaming on Netflix—feels like it must be based on a book, given how full and realized the characters feel. In fact, it’s an original romantic comedy, first written on spec by McKendrick, bought by Sony back in 2019. Zoey Deutch stars as Jill, an...
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