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'Past Lives,' the Start of Oscar Season, and the Top Five Most Romantic Movies of All Time

The Big Picture

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The Different Types of Romantic Comedies

"When you say like a romantic movie, my mind goes to something very different than my beloved romantic comedy," he says. "A lot of romantic comedies end on upbeat, like on a joke or on kind of like a winking." He adds that in real life the only way you can get romance and a happy ending is for it to be pretty contained. 'What's between Hey, song and Nora is love,' writes writer Curtis Sittenfeld.

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