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The Best Romantic Comedies on Netflix Right Now
You’ll laugh; you’ll cry; you’ll laugh at how much you cried.
The true story of a mild-mannered philosophy professor going undercover as a killer for hire on behalf of his local police department may not sound like the stuff of lovery-dovery, but everything clicks into place once Glen Powell’s chameleonic poseur takes a meeting with a troubled young woman trying to get out from under her abusive husband’s thumb. We’ve got a winning duo in Zoey Deutsch and Glen Powell, a novel premise in their scheme to get their evil bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs, both killing it) off their respective backs by tricking them into a fling, some primo escapist-bait Big Apple scenes, and some sturdy joke construction affirming that the art form has not yet completely died out. As Rock’s sobered-up, self-loathing movie star spends a day getting interviewed by loquacious journalist Rosario Dawson, the script makes time for an inventory of the myriad indignities packaged with stardom, from pushy fans to insulting press junkets to the gnawing guilt of lucrative hackdom.
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