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Review: Defending Your Life (1991)

Albert Brooks’s film is an amusing, if ultimately unsatisfying, comedy about what happens after death.

Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromApril 24, 2024Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, comedy, afterlife, satire, 1990s, romantic comedyComment

Review: Yesterday (2019)

With Yesterday, Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis craft a serviceable romantic comedy around the idea of a world where only one man can remember the Beatles, but never take its high-concept to the next level.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromMay 8, 2020The Beatles, music, Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, Hamish Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Ed Sheeran, romantic comedy, comedyComment

Review: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Edgar Wright’s classic “rom zom com” is primarily a triumph of brilliant editing and montage.

Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromApril 15, 2020Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, zombie, comedy, romantic comedyComment

Review: Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Rickman and Thompson excel at Austen.

Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

No longer surprising, but still a delight.

TIFF14: Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

A silly rom-com that doesn't disparage the genre.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2014Daniel Wu, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2, Gao Yuanyuan, Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung, romantic comedy, TIFF, TIFF14, Toronto International Film Festival, Vic ChouComment

Review: Don Jon (2013)

A smart take on love and porn.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 29, 2014Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julianne Moore, love, morality, pornography, relationships, romantic comedy, Scarlett Johansson, sexComment

Review: Enough Said (2013)

A warm comedy about maturing expectations of romance.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 5, 2013Ben Falcone, Catherine Keener, comedy, Enough Said, James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, middle-aged romance, Nicole Holofcener, romance, romantic comedy, Toni ColletteComment

TIFF13: The F Word (2013)

A charming, funny, romantic rom-com. How rare!

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 9, 2013Adam Driver, Canadian film, comedy, Daniel Radcliffe, Elan Mastai, Michael Dowse, romantic comedy, The F Word, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival, Zoe KazanComment

Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

Gosling steals the show in this satisfying romantic comedy.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromNovember 21, 2011Crazy Stupid Love, Dan Fogelman, Emma Stone, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, romantic comedy, Ryan Gosling, Steve CarellComment