![]() ![]() Why are you waiting? Are you saving it for a special occasion? If so, I suggest forgoing that plan and just watching it now. ![]() It’s possible you still haven’t seen Long Shot, the best romantic comedy of 2019. Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, senior writer Long Shot There’s also a really good paintball makeout scene. It was filmed in my hometown, which would usually be a turnoff, but other than that it’s a perfect movie: Ledger sings “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” Allison Janney is a principal who writes erotica, and a teenage Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Ledger’s scrawny sidekick. Based loosely on The Taming of the Shrew, it sees a beautiful Heath Ledger opposite a super-grumpy Julia Stiles (the movie opens with her reading The Bell Jar). But my desert-island rom-com has to be 10 Things I Hate About You. There were so many excellent rom-coms released this year: Alice Wu’s The Half of It comes to mind first, as does this weird little British film, Love Wedding Repeat. ![]() Izzy Grinspan, deputy style editor 10 Things I Hate About You It’s very sweet and has a much more satisfying ending than How I Met Your Mother. ![]() You see him courting three women in flashbacks, but you don’t get to find out which one he married until the end. The premise is that Ryan Reynolds is telling his daughter how he fell in love with her mother. Rachel Bashein, managing editor Definitely, Maybe The 1995 remake with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford is very good too. There’s identity confusion, physical comedy, a tennis-court dance, and the perfect deployment of “La Vie en Rose.” It just makes me happy. Billy Wilder directs Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, and Humphrey Bogart at the top of their games as they swap longing gazes and witticisms. Not the most groundbreaking recommendation, I know, but it’s stood the test of time for a reason. ![]()
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