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He, meanwhile, is simply trying to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him. SheвЂ™s a writer at a womenвЂ™s magazine trying to carve out a space where she can write about subjects of substance-which, for the moment, requires her to ensnare a man and torture him to the point of breaking up.

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From the jump, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is precisely as frothy as it sounds-a film that centers on a Cool Girl, before the term came into vogue, whose chemistry with a mildly chauvinistic manвЂ™s man is undeniable even though their romance is doomed from the start. Only in the rom-com to end all rom-coms would you have leads named Andie Anderson and Benjamin Barry. A film this big and sweeping needs an anchor, and these two do quite nicely. We trace Toula and IanвЂ™s relationship from the very first time they lay eyes on each other, all the way to IanвЂ™s intimate proposal.

But itвЂ™s the romance, which Vardalos pens so sweetly, that grounds it all. Each character is given so much personality and so much attention that My Big Fat Greek Wedding could be splintered into several offshoots following the antics of Aunt Voula (a rib-achingly funny Andrea Martin) or the headstrong Gus ( Michael Constantine), who can trace anything and everything back to Greece. ItвЂ™s the definition of a romp, with kooky characters and their absurdist takes on life spilling out of every scene. Romance! Comedy! Culture shock! The secret healing powers of Windex! VardalosвЂ™s ode to Greek culture in all its beauty and frustration focuses on the quest of her character, Toula, to get her family to accept her non-Greek partner, Ian (played by John Corbett).

The joy of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, starring and written by Nia Vardalos, is that itвЂ™s actually several films baked into one. And while every single pick may not contain every element commonly associated with the romantic comedy, they all fit the American Film InstituteвЂ™s broad definition of вЂњa genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.вЂќ Of course, theyвЂ™re all funny, too. Our ultimate list is an eclectic mix, containing everything from black-and-white classics to, well, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The takeaway, perhaps, is that вЂњromantic comedyвЂќ is an elastic designation, one that lies at least partly in the eye of the beholder-appropriate enough for a genre focused on love. Though 25 movies ultimately made the list, 20 more were left off because they received only a single vote-films that ran the gamut from Obvious Child to White Christmas to Strictly Ballroom to Wall-E. Which got us thinking: what are the films that best exemplify this beloved but under-appreciated genre? After each member of Vanity FairвЂ™s Hollywood team, including all three of our critics, came up with his or her own personal top 10 list, we crunched the numbers, noting which films appeared most frequently, and-after a few brief arguments about what constitutes a romantic comedy, and what does not-came up with the final tally. This summer, Netflix has hit pay dirt by leaning hard on frothy comedies about pretty young things falling in love this week, Crazy Rich Asians will storm theaters, putting a new sort of gloss on a tale as old as time.

Yes, the genre has faltered in popularity since its 1990s heyday-but recent developments prove that audiences are still hungry as ever for banter, meet-cutes, and happy endings. The death of the romantic comedy has been greatly exaggerated.

Chief of female laughing in the wind 2001