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Where Did All The Good Ones Go? The Death of the Romcom

Olivia Luder
January 22, 2015
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Romantic comedies don’t win awards. Rarely are they rapturously received, and they’re an easy cinematic target for the average armchair critic. Formulaic, clichéd and predictable, much of the criticism...

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