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Any season can be a season of love with these swoon-worthy films.

The 25 best romantic movies on Netflix

Any season can be a season of love with these swoon-worthy films.

By Ilana Gordon,

Ilana Gordon is an entertainment, culture, and comedy writer originally from Connecticut. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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and James Mercadante

on November 10, 2025 9:23 a.m. ET

LaKeith Stanfield as Nate Davis and Gina Rodriguez as Jenny Young in 'Someone Great'; Emma Corrin as Lady Constance Chatterley and Jack O'Connell as Oliver Mellors in 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'; Robert Redford as Louis Walters and Jane Fonda as Addie Moore in 'Our Souls at Night'. Credit:

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Tired of going to bed alone? With Netflix, you don't have to. Cozy up to one of the platform's myriad romantic films: They come in all shapes, sizes, and genres. Looking for a historical romance or queer entanglement? What about a journey of self-discovery or a musical romp? All you have to do is swipe and select. And to help you find a movie you love even faster, EW has curated a selection of the 25 best romantic movies worth watching with a date or by yourself.

10 Things I Hate About You (1998)

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona and Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford in '10 Things I Hate About You'.

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The 20th century ended on a high, at least as far as rom-coms are concerned. Starring some of the hottest young talent of the late-'90s, *10 Things I Hate About You* reimagines William Shakespeare's beloved play *The Taming of the Shrew *as a high school love story. Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls in love with Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), but learns she isn't allowed to date until her older sister, Kat (Julia Stiles), does. After Cameron manages to convince resident bad boy Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to woo Kat, Padua High School finds itself overrun with hormones and hijinks.**

A classic rom-com with a killer soundtrack, *10 Things I Hate About You* is the only film to answer the question of what would happen if Shakespeare went to high school in Seattle. —*Ilana Gordon***

Where to watch *10 Things I Hate About You*: Netflix******Director: **Gil Junger**

**Cast: **Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik

Always Be My Maybe (2019)

Ali Wong as Sasha Tran and Keanu Reeves as himself in 'Always Be My Maybe'. Doane Gregory/Netflix

Two old childhood friends reconnect in *Always Be My Maybe*, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park. As teens, the pair considered a romantic relationship, but it didn't work out. As adults, she's become a famous chef while he's still stuck in a small-time band and working for his dad's business.

Now, they'll have to try and see if love is their destiny once again while facing her fame and his insecurities. The movie also features plenty of quirky moments, including Keanu Reeves playing an odd version of himself as a love interest for Wong's character. And, as an added bonus, there's also Wong's amazing wardrobe. —*Lia Beck *

Where to watch *Always Be My Maybe*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B

**Director: **Nahnatchka Khan

**Cast: **Ali Wong, Randall Park, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Dae Kim, James Saito, Michelle Buteau, Vivian Bang ** **

Blue Jay (2017)

Sarah Paulson as Amanda and Mark Duplass as Jim in 'Blue Jay'. Everett Collection

Twenty years after breaking up, former high-school sweethearts Jim (Mark Duplass, who also wrote the script) and Amanda (Sarah Paulson) bump into each other in their California hometown and end up spending the day — and night — together. As they update each other on what's transpired in their lives in the years since they last spoke, Jim and Amanda reminisce together about the people they used to be while attempting to understand the people they have become. A slice of life film that offers a glimpse into the optimism of youthful infatuation, and the bitter realities of aging, living, and loving, *Blue Jay's *simple story is still meaty enough for its two leads to dig their performative talons into. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Blue Jay*: Netflix

**Director: **Alex Lehmann** **

**Cast: **Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson ** **

Clueless (1995)

Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport and Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in 'Clueless'.

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Nineties teen fashion, music, and vernacular are on full display in Amy Heckerling's *Clueless*. A time capsule preservation of the decade's pop-cultural attitudes — at least as far as the Beverly Hills set is concerned — *Clueless *asks what would happen if Jane Austen's *Emma* was set in a Los Angeles high school during the height of mall culture.

The film's critical reception was mid, but three decades later, *Clueless *has aged as gracefully as Paul Rudd's face, which is to say shockingly well. Alicia Silverstone gives a career-best performance as Cher Horowitz, a spoiled teenager whose worldview and popularity are disrupted by the arrival of a new girl in school (Brittany Murphy, also operating at the top of her game). Whether you're lusting after Cher's wardrobe and digital closet or enjoying Heckerling's virtuosic presentation of '90s teen slang, watching *Clueless *always feels like a return to simpler times.* —I.G.*

Where to watch *Clueless*: Netflix through Nov. 30

**Director: **Amy Heckerling

**Cast: **Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Yung, Henry Golding as Nicholas Young, and Constance Wu as Rachel Chu in 'Crazy Rich Asians'.

Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Singapore is a small country with a big thirst for gossip — at least as it pertains to the extravagantly wealthy families on the island in *Crazy Rich Asians*. And nobody there is considered a more eligible bachelor than Nick Young (Henry Golding), who left for the States years ago and is now returning to attend a friend's wedding along with his girlfriend, Rachel (Constance Wu), who — to the dismay of the area's singles — is American born, and worse, does not come from money.

Shocked to learn that her down-to-earth boyfriend is actually the heir to one of Singapore's biggest and longest-established fortunes, Rachel must learn to navigate this new culture, impress Nick's snobbish family, and generally survive life among the excess if she hopes to continue her relationship. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Crazy Rich Asians*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B

**Director: **Jon M. Chu

**Cast: **Henry Golding, Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Jimmy O. Yang

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle and Jennifer Grey as Frances 'Baby' Houseman in 'Dirty Dancing'.

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Get ready for the time of your life with *Dirty Dancing*, an '80s movie about a summer spent growing up and falling in love. Set in 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) joins her parents and older sister at a resort in the Catskills for a vacation, where she finds herself drawn to Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a working-class dance instructor. But as Baby grows closer to Johnny, she begins to shed her upper-middle-class, sheltered upbringing and find her place in the world — and on the dance floor.

Swayze and Grey famously didn't get along during production, but their chemistry and dance moves onscreen are so iridescent, they remain relevant almost 40 years later. The plot wades into dramatic waters, but the film's love story, soundtrack, and dance moves make it the feel-good movie we need right now. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Dirty Dancing*: Netflix

**Director: **Emile Ardolino

**Cast: **Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes

Duck Butter (2018)

Laia Costa as Sergio and Alia Shawkat as Naima in 'Duck Butter'. The Orchard

Love gets fast-tracked in *Duck Butter*, a 2018 independent film co-written by and starring Alia Shawkat. Struggling with the local dating scene, actress Naima (Shawkat) and artist Sergio (Laia Costa) meet at a bar and decide to accelerate their relationship by spending 24 hours together and having sex once an hour. But the more time Naima and Sergio spend together, the more they find their quickly-established intimacy tested by new friends and loved ones.

While the Sergio character was originally written for a man, the decision to cast a woman instead adds another layer of specificity and nuance. Heavier on the toilet humor than you might expect, *Duck Butter *is worth a watch for its excellent acting and killer roster of supporting players. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Duck Butter*: Netflix

**Director: **Miguel Arteta** **

**Cast: **Alia Shawkat, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Mae Whitman, Hong Chau, Kate Berlant, Kumail Nanjiani

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

Will Ferrell as Lars Erickssong and Rachel McAdams as Sigrit Ericksdottir in 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'.

Elizabeth Viggiano/Netflix

If the Puritans knew that coming to America would later disqualify them from competing in the Eurovision Song Contest, they might have had second thoughts about leaving England. As it is, the closest Americans will get to participating in Eurovision is by turning on Will Ferrell's 2020 parody of the annual competition. Lovingly crafted and full of legitimately good songs — including the always requested "Jaja Ding Dong" — *Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga *is a silly story about a maligned musical duo (Ferrell and Rachel McAdams) who are selected to represent Iceland at the competition after a tragedy befalls the country.

McAdams is particularly delightful as the nightingale-voiced Sigrit who commits to helping her bandmate (not brother) achieve his dream of competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. If you're looking for a musical romp populated by whales and gnomes, this is the film for you.  *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga*: Netflix

**Director: **David Dobkin

**Cast: **Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Graham Norton, Demi Lovato, Pierce Brosnan

Frances Ha (2012)

Adam Driver as Lev and Greta Gerwig as Frances in 'Frances Ha'. IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection

One of the best-known additions to the mumblecore movement that briefly invaded independent cinema during the mid-2010s, *Frances Ha* is also one of the most charming. Directed by Noah Baumbach and co-written by the film's star, Greta Gerwig, *Frances Ha* chronicles a difficult period in 27-year-old aspiring dancer Frances Halladay's life. Struggling with the dissolution of one of her closest friendships, financial challenges, and difficulties with her chosen career, Frances is both unmoored and undeterred.

A late-20s coming-of-age story released in 2012, *Frances Ha* contains some vague similarities to HBO's *Girls* (Adam Driver, for one), which premiered that same year, but the film offers such a high level of style, point of view, and performance as to distinguish itself from the rest of the genre. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Frances Ha*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B+

**Director: **Noah Baumbach

**Cast: **Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver, Mickey Sumner, Michael Zegen, Michael Esper, Charlotte d'Amboise

Groundhog Day (1993)

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in 'Groundhog Day'. Everett Collection

Decades before Hollywood started pumping out romantic comedies like *Leap Year* (2010), *Valentine's Day* (2010), and *New Year's Eve* (2011), there was *Groundhog Day*, the ultimate niche holiday comedy. The film follows a TV weatherman named Phil Connors (Bill Murray) who is assigned to cover the annual February festivities in Punxsutawney, Pa., only to find himself reliving the same day over and over again.

A movie that paved the way for other time loop stories like *Looper* (2012), *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014), and *Palm Springs *(2020), *Groundhog Day* casts Murray as a Scrooge-esque misanthrope, places him in an unwinnable situation, and watches as he proceeds to have an existential meltdown — before seizing on his unique situation and attempting to woo his producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell). As EW's critic writes, "*Groundhog Day* — with its really high concept — unfolds with a goofy elegance that feels like a tonic." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Groundhog Day*: Netflix

**EW grade:** A

**Director:** Harold Ramis

**Cast: **Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society (2018)

Glen Powell as Mark Reynolds and Lily James as Juliet Ashton in 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. Studiocanal/Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock

Fans of period romances will fall head over heels for the Netflix original* The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society*. The 2018 film stars Lily James as a writer who gets to know the residents of Guernsey, an island that had recently been under German occupation during World War II. As for the romantic aspect, the lead character is torn between two men: her American fiancé (Glen Powell) and a new man from Guernsey (Michiel Huisman). EW's review of Mike Newell's film calls it "as snug and sweet and congenitally British as a tea cozy." *—L.B.*

Where to watch *The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B+

**Director: **Mike Newell** **

**Cast: **Lily James, Michael Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay

The Half of It (2020)

Leah Lewis as Ellie Chu and Daniel Diemer as Paul Munsky in 'The Half of It'. KC Bailey/Netflix/Everett

Securing Tribeca's Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, Alice Wu's queer revision of *Cyrano de Bergerac *introduces viewers to Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), a booksmart outcast whose writing skills become a lucrative business with her peers as customers. When she starts drafting love letters for himbo jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer, a.k.a. Will Poulter's doppelgänger) to popular girl Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire) — whom Ellie secretly harbors feelings for — the unlikely pair forge a connection far more profound than any high school crush.

Through atmospheric camerawork, whip-smart dialogue, and a sea of film references for cinephiles to bathe in, *The Half of It *spins a coming-of-age love story that bleeds wisdom beyond its years. *—James Mercadante*

Where to watch *The Half of It*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B

**Director:** Alice Wu

**Cast:** Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Enrique Murciano, Wolfgang Novogratz, Catherine Curtin, Becky Ann Baker, Collin Chou

How to Be Single (2016)

Dakota Johnson as Alice and Rebel Wilson as Robin in 'How to Be Single'.

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Fresh out of college, Alice (Dakota Johnson) embarks on a new chapter of life by taking a break from her long-term boyfriend, Josh (Nicholas Braun), and relocating to N.Y.C. to start her career as a paralegal and move into her sister's apartment. Now navigating the single life, Alice is feeling way in over her head, but she doesn't have to do it alone: She has her sister (Leslie Mann) and co-worker–turned–best friend (Rebel Wilson) by her side, who add a little spice and humor to her misadventures.

Interweaving multiple story lines, *How to Be Single* captures the chaos of modern dating and the quest to embrace life on your own terms. Whether you're in a relationship, inexperienced in love, or somewhere in between, this film offers something for everyone — and might reveal a thing or two about yourself. *—J.M. *

Where to watch *How to Be Single*: Netflix

**Director:** Christian Ditter

**Cast: **Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann, Alison Brie, Damon Wayans Jr., Anders Holm, Nicholas Braun, Jake Lacy, Jason Mantzoukas

The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

Chris O'Dowd as Boone and Jessica Williams as Jessica James in 'The Incredible Jessica James'. Netflix

Jessica Williams took the world by storm when she became the youngest correspondent on *The Daily Show*. And after leaving the program in 2016, Williams honed in on film — starting by taking on the roles of Executive Producer and lead actor in the rom-com *The Incredible Jessica James. *The role of Jessica James was created especially for Williams by writer-director Jim Strouse, and the character is perfectly customized to flaunt her many comedic and performative strengths.

In the film, Jessica is an aspiring playwright and employee at a children's theater workshop who just broke up with her boyfriend (LaKeith Stanfield). After her friend Tasha (Noël Wells) sets her up on a date with Boone (Chris O'Dowd), Jessica must decide if their romance is worth pursuing, and what she wants her love life and work life to look like going forward. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *The Incredible Jessica James*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B+

**Director: **Jim Strouse

**Cast: **Jessica Williams, LaKeith Stanfield, Noël Wells, Chris O'Dowd** **

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Knocked Up (2007)

Katherine Heigl as Alison Scott in 'Knocked Up'. Suzanne Hanover

Based solely on the sheer number of films he wrote, directed, and/or produced during this period, it's reasonable to assume that Judd Apatow was responsible for at least 10 percent of the laughs enjoyed during the mid- to late-aughts. Released two years after the success of Apatow's *The 40-Year-Old Virgin*, *Knocked Up* stars a who's who of comedy legends past, present, and future.

The film follows Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl), an up-and-coming E! News reporter, and Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), a Canadian deadbeat she meets at a Los Angeles nightclub. When a drunken hookup between the two results in an unexpected pregnancy, everyone from Ben's slacker friends to Alison's sister's family gets involved as the parents-to-be decide to keep the baby and attempt to stay together. Never one to over-edit, Apatow's film runs long, but the jokes are worth it. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Knocked Up*: Netflix

**EW grade:** A

**Director:** Judd Apatow

**Cast: **Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Martin Starr, Charlyne Yi, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)

Emma Corrin as Lady Constance Chatterley and Jack O'Connell as Oliver Mellors in 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Netflix

If* Fifty Shades of Grey *and *Bridgerton* welcomed a child, its name would be *Lady Chatterley's Lover*. Enduring decades of bans for its salacious content, D.H. Lawrence's 1928 avant-garde novel gets a fresh adaptation under the heedful eye of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, who deftly explores the depths of female desire. In this soft-core romance about emotional and bodily fulfillment, an unhappily married aristocrat (Emma Corrin) defies gender roles by acting on her own urges — starting a clandestine affair with the gamekeeper (Jack O'Connell) of her husband's (Matthew Duckett) estate.

While EW's critic observes a lack of dramatic conflict in the film, they highlight that "what's left is just an unabashedly heady romance, rich in pretty costumes — when they're wearing them — and lush, lusty atmosphere." *—J.M.*

Where to watch *Lady Chatterley's Lover*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B+

**Director: **Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

**Cast:** Emma Corrin, Jack O'Connell, Matthew Duckett, Faye Marsay, Ella Hunt, Anthony Brophy**

Long Shot (2019)

Seth Rogen as Fred Flarsky and Charlize Theron as Charlotte Field in 'Long Shot'.

Philippe Bosse/Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection

It's a tale as old as time: an ambitious secretary of state (Charlize Theron) reconnects with the boy she used to babysit (Seth Rogen), who has grown up to be a political journalist. She's running for president, and he's looking for a new job after getting fired for his incendiary, left-leaning writing. He gets hired to punch up her speeches, and as the two travel the world on a diplomatic tour, their connection turns romantic.

A cross between *Beauty and the Beast* and *Veep* — with a little *There's Something About Mary* thrown in for good measure — *Long Shot* is a romantic comedy with a political edge and serious chemistry between its two leads. With a script co-written by Dan Sterling (*The Interview*) and Liz Hannah (*The Post*), *Long Shot* is a perfect blend of political satire, romantic tropes, and rapid-fire raunch. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Long Shot*: Netflix through Nov. 30

**EW grade: **B

**Director:** Jonathan Levine

**Cast: **Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Andy Serkis, June Diane Raphael, Bob Odenkirk, Alexander Skarsgård

The Lovebirds (2020)

Issa Rae as Leilani Brooks and Kumail Nanjiani as Jibran in 'The Lovebirds'.

After four years of dating, Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) and Leilani (Issa Rae) are prepared to call it quits — until the couple finds themselves involved in a murder that requires them to put their break up aside and go on the run. Too concerned about racial profiling to involve the police, Jibran and Leilani must hunt down the identity of the man who was murdered so they can find out who killed him and clear their own names.

Directed by Michael Showalter (*Wet Hot American Summer*), *The Lovebirds* is a romantic evening gone wrong in the style of films like 2010's *Date Night* and 2018's *Game Night*. Boasting a high ratio of jokes per minute and a pair of lead actors who know how to wield their witticisms like machetes, Nanjiani and Rae's on screen bickering and loving needling will have you rooting for their relationship, even as it's falling apart. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *The Lovebirds*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B

**Director: **Michael Showalter** **

**Cast: **Kumail Nanjiani, Issa Rae, Anna Camp, Paul Sparks ** **

Match Point (2005)

Scarlett Johansson as Nola Rice and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Chris Wilton in 'Match Point'. Clive Coote

Woody Allen's work usually centers around the neuroticisms of wealthy New Yorkers, but in *Match Point*, he deviates in almost every regard. A psychological romantic thriller, the film is the story of Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a former professional tennis player turned social climber who marries a wealthy woman (Emily Mortimer), only to enter into an affair with an aspiring American actress (Scarlett Johansson).

When Chris' lust threatens to derail his marriage and financial stability, the former tennis star struggles to keep his life from combusting. Those looking for Allen's traditional comedic stylings are sure to be disappointed, but the film is a tight, taut thriller that EW's critic calls a "serious and lusciously entertaining adultery drama driven by a lust that turns into authentic compulsion." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Match Point*: Netflix

**Director:** Woody Allen

**Cast: **Brian Cox, Matthew Goode, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Penelope Wilton

Our Souls at Night (2017)

Robert Redford as Louis Walters and Jane Fonda as Addie Moore in 'Our Souls at Night'. Kerry Brown/Netflix

Some partnerships just keep getting better with age, and the onscreen relationship between Robert Redford and Jane Fonda — now in its fourth iteration — is one of those unions. In the Netflix original movie *Our Souls at Night*, Redford and Fonda play longtime neighbors and widowers Louis and Addie, who find comfort in spending their nights together as platonic friends. Aware that their unorthodox relationship and sleeping arrangement is eliciting side eyes from the town and their adult children, the pair must eventually choose between their growing emotional dependence on each other and the needs of their respective families.

With a cast of only seven actors, the strength of *Our Souls at Night* lies mainly in the steady hands of its two leads, who make falling in love look just as appealing as they did half a century ago in *Barefoot In The Park*. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Our Souls at Night*: Netflix

**Director: **Ritesh Batra** **

**Cast: **Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Judy Greer, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruce Dern, Iain Armitage

Phantom Thread (2017)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock and Vicky Krieps as Alma Elson in 'Phantom Thread'. Laurie Sparham/Focus Features

There are lots of lighthearted romantic movies on Netflix, but if you're looking for something much, much darker, there's *Phantom Thread*. The Paul Thomas Anderson movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a fashion designer who finds a muse and partner in a waitress (Vicky Krieps) during the 1950s. The couple's relationship is rocky to say the least, and some poisonous mushrooms play a hefty role in the film's tension.

"What's true with Daniel is that you're always in front of someone very awake, so you have to be awake," Krieps tells EW about working with Day-Lewis. "You couldn't go and do something not really knowing what you're doing or being half thinking about your lunch. It wouldn't work because you'd just crash against the wall." *—L.B.*

Where to watch *Phantom Thread*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B

**Director: **Paul Thomas Anderson

**Cast: **Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Kreips, Lesley Manville

Set It Up (2018)

Zoey Deutch as Harper Moore and Glen Powell as Charlie Young in 'Set It Up'. Netflix

If you found Glen Powell to be perfect boyfriend material in *Anyone but You* (2023), wait until you see him paired with the dynamic Zoey Deutch in *Set It Up*. When two stress-ridden assistants from adjoining companies, Harper (Deutch) and Charlie (Powell), conspire to set up their Type-A bosses (Taye Diggs, Lucy Liu) in hopes of freeing themselves from the nonstop office grind, it sparks an enemies-to-lovers fling between the two matchmakers that's as satisfying as a sublime slice of pizza. *Set It Up *ranks among Netflix's finest rom-coms, injecting the genre's familiar elements with an extra dose of heart — all fueled by the palpable chemistry between Powell and Deutch. *—J.M.*

Where to watch *Set It Up*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B

**Director:** Claire Scanlon

**Cast:** Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Joan Smalls, Meredith Hagner, Pete Davidson, Jon Rudnitsky, Tituss Burgess**

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

John Canada Terrell as Greer Childs, Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon, and Tommy Redmond Hicks as Jamie Overstreet in 'She's Gotta Have It'.

Island Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Spike Lee's first feature film as a writer and director, *She's Gotta Have It* presents intertwining romances as lead character Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) decides which of the three men she's dating (Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell) she wants to have a monogamous relationship with. Luxuriating in Lee's creative sensibility and shot in crisp black and white, Nola's journey towards picking a partner is funny, thought-provoking, and unique in every respect.

In a review of Netflix's 2017 *She's Gotta Have It *adaptation (also directed by Lee), EW's critic describes the original movie, writing, "*She's Gotta Have It *was Spike Lee's first feature film, and few movies feel so joyfully first." A dramedy that questions sexual, relationship, and gender norms of the time, *She's Gotta Have It *is notable for its subject matter, aesthetic, and for launching Lee's storied Hollywood career. *—I.G. ***

Where to watch *She's Gotta Have It*: Netflix**

**Director:** Spike Lee **

**Cast: **Tracy Camilla Johns, Spike Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell**

Someone Great (2019)

LaKeith Stanfield as Nate Davis and Gina Rodriguez as Jenny Young in 'Someone Great'. Sarah Shatz/Netflix

Heartbreak just hits different in Netflix's *Someone Great*, a film about Jenny (Gina Rodriguez), a music journalist who goes through a breakup after accepting her dream job in San Francisco and learning her boyfriend (LaKeith Stanfield) doesn't want to come along. Emotionally buttressed by her best friends Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow), Jenny decides to make the most of her last night in New York City, and along the way encounters an eclectic supporting cast including Rosario Dawson, RuPaul, and *SNL's* Alex Moffat.

In addition to being a solid modern rom-com, *Someone Great* also has great significance in Swiftie lore: Taylor's 2014 song "Clean" off the *1989* album was one of the inspirations for the film's story, and Swift wrote *Lover's* "Death by a Thousand Cuts" after seeing the movie. Deeply relatable for anyone who's been blindsided or suffered a broken heart, *Someone Great *is about endings, beginnings, and finding the joy in both. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Someone Great*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B+

**Director: **Jennifer Kaytin Robinson** **

**Cast: **Gina Rodriguez, DeWanda Wise, Brittany Snow, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, RuPaul, Alex Moffat ** **

To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

Lana Condor as Lara Jean Song-Covey and Jordan Fisher as John Ambrose in 'To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You'. Bettina Strauss/Netflix

Navigating high school is painful enough without all of your crushes finding out you like them — at the same time. A modern rom-com that EW's critic calls "breezy and charming," *To All the Boys I've Loved Before* follows Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) as her worst fears are realized when the love letters she never meant to send find their way to the boys who inspired them.

Cornered by love, Lara Jean negotiates a sham relationship with her former crush to throw off her current one, but when feelings start catching, Lara Jean must deal with the consequences of both her lies and the truths she's starting to realize. The first in a series of three films, which also include 2020's *To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You* and 2021's *To All the Boys: Always and Forever*, the original still hits the hardest. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *To All the Boys I've Loved Before*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B

**Director:** Susan Johnson

**Cast: **Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Andrew Bachelor, Trezzo Mahoro, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Israel Broussard, John Corbett

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From romantic old Hollywood classics to hilarious new favorites, there's plenty to love about these titles on HBO Max.

The 18 best romantic comedies on HBO Max

From romantic old Hollywood classics to hilarious new favorites, there's plenty to love about these titles on HBO Max.

By Ilana Gordon and Angela Andaloro

on November 10, 2025 8:50 a.m. ET

Drew Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore in '50 First Dates'; Meryl Streep as Jane Adler and Alec Baldwin as Jake Adler in 'It's Complicated'; Ben Whishaw as the Limping Man and Colin Farrell as David in 'The Lobster'. Credit:

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If you're looking to fall in love from the comfort of your couch, HBO Max has you covered.

From screwball situations to sweet serenades, relationships come in many shapes and life stages, and these 18 HBO Max favorites will carry you from meet-cute to matrimony. Featuring films about platonic love, romantic love, and learning to love oneself, the movies on this list contain multitudes. Turn them on and they'll show you how to live, laugh, and love in ways a sign from T.J. Maxx could never.

50 First Dates (2004)

Drew Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore and Adam Sandler as Henry Roth in '50 First Dates'. Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection

Six years after Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore teamed up for *The Wedding Singer*, the two connected on screen for a second time, playing opposite each other in this daffy romantic comedy. Following a commitment-phobic veterinarian (Sandler) who falls in love with an artist suffering from short-term amnesia (Barrymore), *50 First Dates* hones in on and heightens the game of finding the person you can't stop thinking about — and dealing with the reality that they'll never remember meeting you.

Set on the island of Oahu — a location so consistently beautiful that it alone negates the idea of time passing — this premise-driven comedy finds emotional resonance amidst all the silly gags. Barrymore and Sandler have just as much chemistry together as they did in their first film, leading what EW's critic describes as "an agreeably deranged romance with a geeks-in-paradise Hawaiian setting." *—Ilana Gordon *

Where to watch *50 First Dates*: HBO Max

**Director: **Peter Segal

**Cast:** Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Dan Aykroyd

Am I OK? (2022)

Dakota Johnson as Lucy in 'Am I OK?'.

A coming out and coming-of-middle-age movie co-directed by comics and real-life spouses Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, *Am I Ok? *is the queer millennial movie you didn't know you needed. Dakota Johnson stars as Lucy, a woman stuck in career and romantic limbo, who is forced out of her everyday mundanity by a new understanding of her sexuality and her best friend's upcoming international move.

A comedy about love — both platonic and romantic — the movie was filmed during the pandemic and premiered at Sundance, but has since found a home on HBO Max, and a fan base amongst movie lovers who enjoy authentic comedies about late bloomers finding love and themselves. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Am I OK?*: HBO Max**

**Directors: **Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne

**Cast: **Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon, Whitmer Thomas, Odessa A'zion, Sean Hayes, Tig Notaro

Better Off Dead (1985)

John Cusack as Lane Meyer in 'Better Off Dead'.

A product of its time, *Better Off Dead* is an '80s romantic comedy about Lane Meyer (John Cusack), a teenager who decides the only cure for his broken heart is to end it all. Lane's pursuit of an Earthly exit, however, is interrupted when he meets a French exchange student who helps him get his groove back and motivates him to challenge his ex's new boyfriend to a high-stakes ski race.

A black comedy through and through, *Better Off Dead* gets its lifeblood from Cusack's charismatic performance of a depressed teen, and from the eccentric group of supporting characters who seem intent on making Lane's life harder and weirder. The movie has its moments that feel extra '80s, but as a former EW correspondent writes, *Better Off Dead*, "has the rare mix of heart and smarts to render it nearly timeless." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Better Off Dead*: HBO Max

**Director:** Savage Steve Holland

**Cast: **John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby

Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in 'Casablanca'. Everett Collection

Despite boasting some of the best quotes in all of cinematic history, *Casablanca* was just one of many films churned out by the studio system in the early years of World War II. But something about the movie's heart-wrenching love triangle, political and social relevance, and lush setting charmed viewers, propelling the project to an unexpected Best Picture win, and a permanent spot on almost every Best Of list.

Electricity rations were common at the time of the movie's release, but entirely unnecessary — the sexual currents pulsating between stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman had to have been strong enough to generate power for a small city, at the very least. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Casablanca*: HBO Max

**EW grade:** A

**Director: **Michael Curtiz

**Cast: **Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

City Lights (1931)

Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp and Virginia Cherrill as the Blind Girl in 'City Lights'.

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HBO Max offers a number of Charlie Chaplin's movies, features and shorts — the actor, director, and composer made 81 throughout the course of his career — but *City Lights *shines brighter than most. Released in 1931, a few years after "talkies" began overtaking theaters, Chaplin chose to limit *City Light's *sound to its score. But even without dialogue, this romantic comedy creates an emotional vibe that an EW critic called a "consummate weeper."

Chaplin returns as the Little Tramp, his signature character, who falls in love with a young blind woman. When the woman mistakes him for a millionaire, the Tramp befriends an actual millionaire and hopes to use his money to pay for an operation that would restore the woman's sight. The movie is a must-see for any comedy or cinema history enthusiast. —*I.G.*

Where to watch *City Lights*: HBO Max

**Director: **Charlie Chaplin

**Cast: **Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia

Dinner With Friends (2001)

Toni Collette as Beth, Dennis Quaid as Gabe, Greg Kinnear as Tom, and Andie MacDowell as Karen in 'Dinner With Friends'. Everett

HBO Max's cinematic adaptation of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize winning 1998 play, *Dinner With Friends *maintains the original's simple premise while mining deep for emotional and personal revelations. The story of two New England couples dealing with the fact that one of the pairs is divorcing, the film captures the unexpected moments of vulnerability and honesty that define long-term relationships — even ones that are falling apart.

Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell are perfectly cast as a pair of foodies who are more comfortable navigating what's on their dinner plates than what's going on in their friends' lives, and Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette toggle between insecurity and self-assurance as the couple whose marriage is broken up by an affair with a younger woman. Haute cuisine served over seven scenes, *Dinner With Friends *is the rare adaptation that remains faithful to the original while still finding new paths to tread. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Dinner With Friends*: HBO Max

**Director: **Norman Jewison** **

**Cast: **Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette

I Married a Witch (1942)

Frederic March as Wallace and Veronica Lake as Jennifer in 'I Married a Witch'.

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Fans of the '60s sitcom *Bewitched *might want to check out *I Married a Witch*, a romantic comedy whose lighthearted absurdism was likely intended to serve as a distraction from the violence happening overseas during the Second World War.

Veronica Lake stars as Jennifer, a witch who returns to Earth centuries after being burned at the stake, seeking revenge against the descendant of Jonathan Wooley, the Puritan who persecuted her. But her plans for retribution are rerouted after Jennifer meets Wallace Wooley, an aspiring politician, and falls in love with him. All of the Wooley men in the movie are portrayed by Fredric March, but it's Lake's wit and charisma that carry the film. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *I Married a Witch*: HBO Max

**EW grade: **B+

**Director: **René Clair

**Cast: **Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway

It's Complicated (2009)

Meryl Streep as Jane Adler and Steve Martin as Adam Schaffer in 'It's Complicated'.

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You can expect three things from a Nancy Meyers film: romance, comedy, and superior kitchens. The Meyers trifecta is on full display in *It's Complicated*, a movie that EW's critic at the time referred to as "middle-aged femme porn." Meryl Streep stars as Jane Adler, a successful bakery owner whose amicable relationship with her ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin), takes a detour back into the romantic after a decade apart.

A broad comedy distinguished by its excellent cast and focus on romanticizing the love and sex lives of middle-aged people,* It's Complicated* keeps its story and message simple. And by doing so in such an aesthetic and well-executed style, it feels like a real treat. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *It's Complicated*: HBO Max

**Director: **Nancy Meyers

**Cast:** Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)

Billie Whitelaw as Evelyn and Judi Dench as Elizabeth in 'The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'. HBO/Everett

A film with a sensibility that can only be described as singularly British, *The Last of the Blonde Bombshells *is a romantic comedy with some rhythm. Elizabeth (Judi Dench) spent World War II playing saxophone in a swing band called the Blonde Bombshells. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth reconnects with Patrick (Ian Holm) — the band's former drummer and only male member, who avoided conscription during the war by cross-dressing.

When the pair start dating, Elizabeth decides to get the band back together, but discovers the Bombshells have scattered with members in jail, suffering from alcoholism, and devoted to the Salvation Army. Witty and nostalgic, *The Last of the Blonde Bombshells *is another piece of evidence that blondes really do have more fun. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *The Last of the Blonde Bombshells*: HBO Max

**Director: **Gillies MacKinnon** **

**Cast: **Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Romola Garai, Olympia Dukakis

Love & Other Drugs (2010)

Anne Hathaway as Maggie Murdock and Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Randall in 'Love & Other Drugs'.

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Five years after playing a married couple in the cowboy drama *Brokeback Mountain*, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway reunite to play opposite each other in *Love & Other Drugs*. A romantic comedy that lets it all hang out — both physically and emotionally — the film follows a pharmaceutical sales representative (Gyllenhaal) who falls in love with a free spirit afflicted with an incurable disease (Hathaway). Based on Jamie Reidy's 2005 non-fiction book *Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman*, the film traffics in ideas about love, sex, sickness, health, medical ethics, and the brokenness of America's healthcare system.

Generally known for his more dramatic roles, Gyllenhaal gets a chance to show off his comedic chops through his character, the ethically dubious ne'er-do-well Jamie, and his and Hathaway's chemistry is more alive than it was in *Brokeback Mountain*. The film's nudity and sex scenes are intimate and effective, but side effects include discomfort when watching with the whole family. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Love & Other Drugs*: HBO Max

**Director: **Edward Zwick

**Cast: **Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht

Let Them All Talk (2020)

Meryl Streep as Alice in 'Let Them All Talk'. HBO Max

Joan Didion once said "Writers are always selling someone out," and that is exactly what Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Hughes (Meryl Streep) is accused of doing. In *Let Them All Talk*, Alice boards the Queen Mary 2 on a transatlantic trip with the intention of writing her new book and spending time with two of her oldest friends (Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest). But as the voyage proceeds, Alice ends up battling with Roberta (Bergen) over how much of her original book was based on Roberta's life, and watching as her nephew Tyler (Lucas Hedges) falls for her literary agent, Karen (Gemma Chan).

Funny, wise, bitter, primarily improvised, and made in barely two weeks, EW's critic describes the film as "a chance to spend two hours watching Streep & Co. make the most of Deborah Eisenberg's deliciously salty script, while Soderbergh — who also serves as cinematographer — shoots it all in ruthless, radiant light." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Let Them All Talk*: HBO Max

**EW grade: **A–

**Director: **Steven Soderbergh

**Cast: **Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Gemma Chan, Lucas Hedges

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The Lobster (2015)

Jessica Barden as Nosebleed Woman and Colin Farrell as David in 'The Lobster'.

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An absurdist black comedy that satirizes our culture's discomfort around uncoupled people, *The Lobster* asks what would happen if singles were given 45 days to find a mate, or be transformed into the animal of their choice. After David's (Colin Farrell) wife leaves him, he is taken to a hotel and instructed to find someone compatible. But when an incident involving a potential life partner forces him to flee into the woods to live with the loners, David discovers that it doesn't matter where you are or who you're with — falling in love is never easy. *The Lobster* is one of the most original romantic comedies, and will live in your brain rent-free for weeks after watching. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *The Lobster*: HBO Max

**EW grade: **A

**Director: **Yorgos Lanthimos

**Cast:** Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

John Corbett as Ian Miller and Nia Vardalos as Toula Portokalos in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. Gold Circle Films

Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) embraces her role as the loyal yet overlooked member of her enormous clan until she decides to take control of her life at 30. While her parents tirelessly seek the perfect Greek man for her, Toula knows none of those suitors stand a chance against WASP English teacher Ian Miller (John Corbett), who's head over heels for her and is ready to take on the challenge of getting her family to approve their marriage. (He's really all that and a bottle of Windex!)

Adapted from Vardalos' one-woman show based on her real-life family, *My Big Fat Greek Wedding *delves into the dynamics of growing up in an immigrant household deeply rooted in their culture, navigating a world that centers on conformity. —*Angela Andaloro*

Where to watch *My Big Fat Greek Wedding*: HBO Max

**Director:** Joel Zwick

**Cast:** Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Gia Carides, Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, Joey Fatone**

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in 'Pride & Prejudice'.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that of all the film and TV adaptations of Jane Austen's acclaimed novel, first published in 1813, the 2005 version of *Pride & Prejudice* ranks among the top two. Long before Matthew Macfadyen battled for his place in the corporate hierarchy as *Succession*'s Tom Wambsgans, he matched wits with Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) as the apparently standoffish but ultimately well-intentioned Mr. Darcy (a role previously aced by Colin Firth in the 1995 TV drama).

A film that earned Knightley her first Oscar nod for Best Actress, the remake — directed by Joe Wright — infuses modern relevance into a beloved period piece. EW's review promises, "The acting in *Pride & Prejudice* tingles with nuance and presence." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Pride & Prejudice*: HBO Max through Nov. 30

**EW grade: **A

**Director: **Joe Wright

**Cast:** Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Jena Malone, Talulah Riley, Simon Woods, Rupert Friend

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell and Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano in 'Silver Linings Playbook'.

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Rarely is mental health explored on screen in a nuanced, vibrant, joyful way, but that's exactly the tone director David O. Russell nails in *Silver Linings Playbook*. Pat and Tiffany (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) are both dealing with personal issues and recovering from losing their romantic partners. Unmoored and filterless, they meet and agree to help each other out — Tiffany promises to assist Pat in winning back his ex-wife, and in turn, he agrees to be her partner in a dance competition.

As they rehearse together and struggle to sort through their woes, they uncover coping mechanisms that allow them to not only live but find the beauty in their respective challenges. The kind of entertaining movie that cleans up at awards shows while still retaining its rewatchability, EW's critic at the time writes, "We're ready for the comedy of craziness, but the depth of compassion is the movie's silver lining." *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Silver Linings Playbook*: HBO Max

**EW grade: **A

**Director:** David O. Russell

**Cast: **Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden and Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in 'Singin' in the Rain'. Everett Collection

Widely considered one of the best musicals ever captured on film, *Singin' in the Rain* has everything from music and dance to comedy and romance. Released 29 years after the entertainment industry premiered its first movie featuring sound-on-film, the story stars Gene Kelly as a celebrated silent film actor struggling to make the jump to the talkies, and Debbie Reynolds as an up-and-coming actress trying to break into the business.

The majority of the film's comedy and over-the-top dance numbers are provided by the charismatic Donald O'Connor, and Jean Hagen makes a delightful (and Oscar-nominated) turn as Lina, a silent movie star with a face for film and a Brooklyn accent strong enough to stop traffic. A beloved treasure and shining representative from Hollywood's Golden Era, *Singin' in the Rain* continues to endure and inspire. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Singin' in the Rain*: HBO Max

**Directors: **Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

**Cast: **Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen

We Live in Time (2024)

Andrew Garfield as Tobias and Florence Pugh as Almut in 'We Live in Time'.

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A romantic dramedy about love, aging, and what it truly means to live life to the fullest, *We Live in Time* is a film told across three different timelines. From the moment Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) first meet — she hits him with her car as he's on his way to sign divorce papers — it's clear this film is not interested in employing a traditional, linear, narrative structure.

The movie jumps between past, present, and future, and while the logic for why the story moves the way it does isn't always clear, the characters, their relationship, and the chemistry between Pugh and Garfield is strong enough to ground the audience through the leaps. Director John Crowley tells EW that his film's ambition is to "hopefully capture the sense of what it feels like to be on the inside of a relationship." He pulls it off, and the result is charming. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *We Live in Time*: HBO Max

**Director: **John Crowley

**Cast: **Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh

Your Monster (2024)

Tommy Dewey as Monster and Melissa Barrera as Laura Franco in 'Your Monster'.

A horror romantic comedy that riffs on *Beauty and the Beast*, *Your Monster* is a genre mash-up that is sure to delight. Laura (Melissa Barrera) has just been broken up with by her long-term boyfriend Jacob (Edmund Donovan). Forced to move back home, Laura discovers a monster (Tommy Dewey) squatting in her childhood bedroom. He agrees to give her two weeks to get her life together, and so begins the relationship between a woman trying to move on and the monster who lives in her closet.

Much of the film centers around a musical theater production involving Jacob, Laura, and the woman Laura believes Jacob is romantically interested in, so the film has some great production numbers. But the movie primarily exists as a showcase for Barrera, one of the most exciting actors in this new class of Scream Queens. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Your Monster*: HBO Max

**Director: **Caroline Lindy

**Cast: **Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, Meghann Fahy

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Brothers Charlie Murphy and Eddie Murphy arrive at Spike TV's 'Eddie Murphy: One Night Only' in 2012. Credit:

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- *Being Eddie *chronicles Eddie Murphy's legendary career.

- The late Charlie Murphy is also featured in the documentary, leading to an emotional moment for the* Nutty Professor* star.

- "You get a glimpse of me totally vulnerable, just me," the comedian tells EW of the scene.

There's a rare moment in a new documentary on Eddie Murphy that catches the comedian being truly vulnerable after years of intentionally holding back.

Netflix's career-spanning *Being Eddie *(out Wednesday) features interviews with the legendary comedian and those who've been inspired by or worked with him, including Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Brian Grazer. Another presence looming large over the documentary is Murphy's older brother, *Chappelle's Show *storyteller Charlie, who died in 2017 from leukemia at age 57.**

Murphy tells * *it was a no-brainer for his late sibling to have a role in the doc.**

"There wasn't a decision that had to be made. [It's] about my life and he's a huge part of it, huge impact.... You have your dad and your big brother; those are your protectors. So he's a part of it," he says. "I think about Charlie every day, so he's a constant presence."

Charlie Murphy on 'Chappelle's Show'.

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The late comedian is shown in archival footage (as well as in a notable childhood painting that the *Coming to America *star displays onscreen), proudly boasting about his little brother's accomplishments. Charlie is such a living, breathing part of *Being Eddie* that it comes as an emotional jolt later in the film when the *Nutty Professor* actor opens up about how much he misses him and shares his own thoughts about death.**

Murphy admits that, in watching the documentary back, he was struck by just how vulnerable he allowed himself to be in that moment.

"That's the only time ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in 50 years of this business, in 50 movies where you really see me for a split second. You get a glimpse of me totally vulnerable, just me," he says of the scene. "It's like maybe two seconds of it, but it's a flicker there. It's enough that you feel it, and it's the first time they caught *me* on camera. That's what I get when I watch."**

Eddie Murphy and Charlie Murphy at the premiere of 'Norbit' in 2007.

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The comedian reveals that the impetus for not allowing himself to be fully vulnerable publicly stems from his experiences doing interviews at the start of his career, after joining *Saturday Night Live *at just 19 years old and quickly blowing up into a blockbuster movie star over the next few years.

"Early in my career, they used to hammer me so much. I used to do print stuff, and in the early days, they used to really hammer me and really rip me," Murphy says. "I thought it was mean-spirited, and some of it was racist. So it put a bad taste in my mouth."

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The Oscar nominee acknowledges that he often felt like a lone wolf in those days.

"It was a whole different world when I blew up in 1980. It's a whole different America. We don't have Oprah yet. We don't have hip hop yet. We don't have Michael Jordan yet," he recalls. "So I'm kind of out there, and some of the old America racist s--- would creep into stuff, you know? So I stopped doing press really, really early on."

While his movies proved hugely popular with audiences, he recalls a cold reception from critics.

"They used to rip all my movies," he remembers. "*Beverly Hills Cop* was two thumbs way down, and *Coming to America* was two thumbs way down. And everything I would do, they would s--- on it."

Indeed, famed thumb-wagging film critic duo Siskel & Ebert mostly panned both movies, largely considered by the public (and EW) as two of Murphy's best.

John Ashton as Det. Sgt. John Taggart, Eddie Murphy as Det. Axel Foley, and Judge Reinhold as Det. William 'Billy' Rosewood in 'Beverly Hills Cop'.

On their review show, *At the Movies, *Roger Ebert called *Beverly Hills Cop *"a stunningly routine action picture that is redeemed only occasionally by Eddie Murphy," but "plays like a TV sitcom," while Gene Siskel said he was "very disappointed in it." The movie would go on to be No. 1 at the box office for 13 consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, *Coming to America — *the second highest-grossing film of 1988 domestically — Siskel found "very funny," but Ebert denounced as "hackneyed and so recycled out of 100 other fairy tales" with a "lethargic" performance by Murphy.

The star says he took it all in stride, often dismissing bad reviews as steeped in prejudice due to the all-too-rare instance of a Black-led film.

"It was never like something I would take to heart. It would be like, 'Oh, that's just some racist s---.' I was always able to dismiss it,' he says. "I never walked around with it. That's the way it was during those times."

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Critics aside, the actor recognizes the impact his success had on Hollywood.

"The reason things changed after *Beverly Hills Cop *was because the perception changed. It was like they never thought of a Black star's movie working all around the world, or a Black actor being the biggest, because this is a white man's business. A white male Hollywood made this for white males," he says. "The success of those movies made them go, *Hey, where there's one, there's another and another and another*."****

*Being Eddie* premieres on Netflix on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Watch the trailer above.**

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Kim Kardashian channeled Halle Berry in a sparkling purple look for her mom Kris Jenner's 70th birthday

The reality star was inspired by Berry's look in the 2002 James Bond flick Die Another Day

Kim's sisters Kourtney Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner also attended the star-studded affair celebrating their mom's milestone birthday

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Kim Kardashian is sharing the inspiration behind the dazzling ensemble she wore for her mom Kris Jenner's 70th birthday party. In an Instagram carousel posted on Monday, Nov. 10, the 45-year-old mogul showed off a sparkling two-piece ensemble modeled after Halle Berry's look in the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day.

"Die Another Day. 0070 James Bond Party for the one and only @krisjenner 70th birthday!!!," she captioned the post.

Kim's outfit consisted of a purple sheer mesh top decked out with sparkling embellishments and featuring crystal-covered straps that crossed at the back. She teamed it with a matching low-waisted purple column skirt that made it difficult for her to walk, as seen in a video of her making her way to the party.

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The SKIMS founder wore her hair in a sleek updo with bouncy curls and tied everything together with a purple makeup look.

In her Instagram post, Kim included a photo of Halle Berry as her character. Jinx, wearing a similar outfit and posing with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

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Kim Kardashian.

Guests at Kris's star-studded affair's included members of her famous family and various celebrity friends.

Held at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Beverly Hills mansion, some A-listers in attendance included Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Tyler Perry, Vin Diesel and Mark Zuckerberg, and it was a date night for some couples, including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and Adele and Rich Paul.

Halle Berry in 'Die Another Day.'

In addition to Kim, members of the extended Kardashian-Jenner family who attended the event included daughters Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, plus Travis Barker, Scott Disick and Tristan Thompson, as well as Kris' boyfriend, Corey Gamble. — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

On Sunday, Nov. 9, Kris, who turned 70 on Nov. 5, shared photos from her James Bond-themed party.

The momager stepped out in a red strapless dress with ruffles along the bust and a tiered ruffled skirt. The vintage gown came from Givenchy Haute Couture by Alexander McQueen's fall/winter 2002 collection, which she purchased from celeb-loved vintage retailer LILY et Cie.

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The reality star accessorized with black opera gloves, a vintage Bvlgari bracelet and vintage Van Cleef & Arpels earrings. To finish off the elegant look, Kris sported a glamorous updo courtesy of celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton.

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Kylie Jenner; Kendall Jenner.

Kylie, 28, and Kendall, 30, shared photos of their looks on Instagram Stories on Sunday, Nov. 9.

Kendall, who recently celebrated her milestone 30th birthday on Nov. 3, posted a close-up snapshot of her figure-hugging fishtail red gown, which she teamed with a pair of black The Row Cleo Bijoux sandals. Instagram Stories of their glamorous looks for their mom's birthday party.

Kendall, who recently celebrated her milestone 30th birthday on Nov. 3, posted a close-up snapshot of her figure-hugging fishtail red gown, which she teamed with a pair of black The Row Cleo Bijoux sandals.

Kylie, meanwhile, wore a striking white halter-neck cut-out Elisabeth Franchi dress with a sheer floor-length skirt and white pointed pumps, teamed with Lorraine Schwartz embellished earrings.

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We've already told you about all the exciting new titles coming to Netflix this month, but with that good news also comes bad: Some beloved projects are leaving the service throughout the month. You never know when something might pop up on streaming again (or which of the many services it'll go to next), so the next few weeks could be your last opportunity for a while to check out some of these fantastic movies and television series.

We've got your comprehensive guide to everything that's dropping off Netflix's collection this month, including a few highlights that we definitely recommend seeing before they're gone.

Must-Watch Movies and Shows Leaving Netflix in November 2025Thirteen

In this unthinkably gritty coming-of-age film, Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), a seventh-grade student in Los Angeles, begins dabbling in substance abuse, sex, self-harm, and crime after being befriended by a troubled, calculated classmate.

Jaws

In this classic thriller, a police chief, a marine biologist, and a professional shark hunter hunt a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a New England summer resort town.

Mamma Mia!

In the mood for a musical? Donna (Meryl Streep), is an independent hotelier in the Greek islands who's preparing for her daughter's wedding. Meanwhile Sophie, the bride, secretly invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father just in time for the big day.

Movies and Shows Leaving Netflix in November 2025

Leaving 11/1/2547 Meters Down47 Meters Down: UncagedBlowCharlie and the Chocolate FactoryDespicable MeDespicable Me 2Eat Pray LoveThe Fast and the Furious2 Fast 2 FuriousThe Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftFast FiveFast & Furious 6Furious 7Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawFerris Bueller's Day OffHappy GilmoreHorrible BossesJurassic ParkJurassic Park IIIMinionsRide AlongRide Along 2She's All ThatSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsShrekShrek 2Shrek Forever AfterShrek the ThirdSix Feet Under: Seasons 1-5Starship TroopersThe Lost World: Jurassic ParkThirteenTotal RecallVarsity BluesWeird ScienceWet Hot American SummerWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Leaving 11/6/25Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceReba: Seasons 1-6

Leaving 11/8/25A Star Is Born

Leaving 11/13/25Archer: Seasons 1-13

Leaving 11/14/25Madame WebSmile

Leaving 11/15/25A.P. Bio: Seasons 1-4First Wives Club: Seasons 1-3JawsJaws 2Jaws 3Jaws: The Revenge

Leaving 11/16/25Mamma Mia!

Leaving 11/17/25Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Seasons 1-8

Leaving 11/20/25Shahs of Sunset: Seasons 3-4

Leaving 11/22/25San Andreas

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What Christians Get Wrong About St. Paul's Teachings Belinda LuscombeNovember 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM 0 The Church of the Transfiguration in New York City in 2021. Credit Sergi Reboredo—VWPics / AP Nicholas Tom "N.T." Wright is recognized as one of the preeminent New Testament scholars of this era. He's a former bishop of Durham and has taught at Oxford University and St. Andrews in Scotland. He has written more than 80 books and specializes in analyzing the writings of St. Paul, most recently about his letter to the Ephesians.

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Nicholas Tom "N.T." Wright is recognized as one of the preeminent New Testament scholars of this era. He's a former bishop of Durham and has taught at Oxford University and St. Andrews in Scotland. He has written more than 80 books and specializes in analyzing the writings of St. Paul, most recently about his letter to the Ephesians.

Shortly before the publication of the book, The Vision of Ephesians, Wright talked to TIME about how contemporary churches are ignoring biblical advice to cross cultural boundaries, how Christians are misunderstanding the Bible on heaven, and the hardest part of the New Testament to translate accurately.

Church attendance around the Western world is declining. To what do you attribute this?

I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer. I think in America there is a revulsion against the perceived follies of what would call itself "Christian nationalism." People say, if that's Christianity, I'm running as fast as I can in the opposite direction, while, of course, there are plenty of practicing Christians for whom Christian nationalism is equally abhorrent. In Britain, the statistics have been down around between 5% and 10%, depending on which part of the country it is, for a long time. So the fact that the American church is shrinking brings it just a little bit closer to the rest of us. But I also get word from church colleagues in London and parts of America about lots of younger people coming into church.

Has your recent theological study led you to a theory on what the point of church is?

The point of church is worship. It doesn't take any study to know that. What people do is organically related to which gods they are worshipping. Most modern Western Christians think that the point of Christianity is for my soul to go to heaven when I die. That's not what the Bible teaches. The point of Christianity is for the kingdom of God to come, as Jesus taught "on earth as in heaven," and many churches have hardly begun to tune in to that and to work out what that might mean. What matters is God doing new creation, and the church being the people through whose life and prayer and work new creation is already happening around us.

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In your new book on Ephesians, you say the church should be the small working model of this "new creation." What does that look like?

It looks like ordinary people doing extraordinary things, which demonstrates to the world around them that there actually is a God, that He's the God who we see in Jesus, and that He is alive and active. Again and again Ephesians comes back to this, that the reason that God has called people to believe in Jesus is in order to create a community which demonstrates to the world that new creation has been launched. It is active. Paul wants the church to be an attractive community, and then for people to say, "How come you seem to be sort of different?" And the answer is, "Well, we follow this man called Jesus who was different, and he's launched this thing called new creation. And we're not very good at it yet, but we're doing our best to be part of it."

You write that multiculturalism is a bedrock of the Christian idea. But when you look at churches…

I know, I know. And that is a real tragedy. It's one of the things which Ephesians addresses head on. In Paul's day, the big divide was Jewish and Gentile. And Paul says Jesus has broken down the barrier between Jew and Gentile in order to create a single new humanity out of disparate elements. The problem we've had is that ever since the secular enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries, many people in the Western world have tried to create a multicultural society, but without the gospel as its basis.

Are saying DEI initiatives are failing because there's no gospel?

You could put it like that. The trouble is that DEI initiatives are shaped by a kind of a secular agenda; they include all sorts of other things. It's the ethnic thing which Paul is particularly concerned about. It depresses me and worries me enormously the thought of some Christians saying, "We will let Black people worship in their churches down the road there, and we'll let Asian people worship in their churches over there, and we white-skinned people will worship in churches here." Absolutely not. This is a denial of something which is fundamental. People have said to me, "Oh, you're just following the woke agenda." This has nothing to do with being woke. If the church isn't true to what ought to be part of its core message, don't be surprised if other people come along and fill in the gaps from their own motivations.

Does this mean people should travel out of their neighborhood to find a more diverse church?

It depends entirely on individual vocations and possibilities. But you know, people in the Roman Empire looking at a Christian assembly, seeing slaves in the same group as masters and calling each other brothers and sisters—this was just hugely shocking. I think all Christians today, whether or not they can do anything about it, ought at least to have the question in their minds, what are the implicit boundaries in my society that my church is going along with? And how could we transcend those?

You also write that Christianity, in all its traditions, has held what you call the "essential Jewishness" of Christianity at arm's length. What do you mean by that?

The early Christian movement was basically a first-century Jewish renewal movement, which, because of both the teaching and then the death and resurrection of Jesus, quickly became a Jewish renewal movement for the world. But in the 19th century, particularly in Europe, there was so much implicit anti-Judaism in the society that when people were studying the New Testament, anything that looked Jewish, like the Temple, they said, "Oh no, Paul just means it as a loose metaphor. He doesn't really mean that." They're not thinking about what the Temple was within Judean culture and how that transfers and transcends into what Paul might be meaning by it in, say, Ephesians chapter two.

Just to clarify, you're saying that the historical antisemitism of the church and its dismissiveness of Jews has damaged the way the church understands the Bible today?

Undoubtedly. And this goes back to the Middle Ages and beyond—whether we're talking about pogroms in old pre-Soviet Russia, whether we're talking about the antisemitism of Germany in the 19th and in the 20th century, or sadly, in Britain and many other countries—there was a kind of implicit anti-Judaism.

Does the Bible give us any wisdom on the current situation with Israel and Gaza?

In Psalm 2, God says to David, I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the world as your possession, which is echoing the promise to Abraham, but saying it's now extended. In other words, the Promised Land was an advanced metaphor for God's claim on the whole of creation, and so the Christian mission is to make the Lordship of Jesus a reality in the whole world. At the moment in America, there is this very strong sense that the promises made in the Bible to the Israelite people about the land were not fulfilled at the time, and that now—they cite the U.N. resolution of 1948 establishing the state of Israel—they've got going again. Biblically speaking, this is all rubbish. I can't say that strongly enough. It's a total misreading. Ultimately, the whole world is God's holy land, but as claimed in the name of Jesus, and by the means of Jesus, which is by the means of self-giving love, rather than the means of the bullet and the tank.

Your book talks about "spiritual warfare." I saw a law firm on Twitter saying it was engaged in "spiritual warfare" as it defended religious liberty. What is spiritual warfare?

Jesus was very clear that the real enemy is not the Romans or the Greeks or the people that you could actually fight, but that it's the dark powers that stand behind them. And Paul says, Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but we're fighting in a different dimension. At the moment, many people use the language of spiritual warfare to justify their fight against flesh and blood, against actual human beings that they could name and that they want to take out, either by violence or by canceling them or whatever. This is the worship of Mars, the god of war. Obviously, what Hamas did in October two years ago was unbelievably horrible and terrible and wicked, but the way in which vengeance is being exacted a hundredfold, unless you've got very clear ideological blinkers on, you are bound to say that this is equally wicked in a different way.

We need to talk about Ephesians 5, the whole "wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord" bit. Some people say these verses hold women back.

Yeah, they have been used to do that. I believe they don't. The other half of what you just read is the instructions for husbands, which is like that of Christ, who sacrificed himself on behalf of the church. And so if at any point a husband were to say, "You're my wife, you must submit to me," the wife has the perfect right to respond, "You're the husband, and your role is to love and serve me as Christ loved the church." Some bits of this chapter have been used for generations to say to women, sit down, shut up, and make the tea. And clearly that wasn't Paul's attitude. If you look at Paul's attitude to women in, say, Romans, where Paul has written one of the most important letters ever written in human history, who does he give it to to take to Rome? Phoebe, who is a deacon in the church in Cenchreae. And the person who takes a letter in the ancient world to another community is likely going to be the person who will read it out and explain it. I would argue backwards from there that whatever else is going on in this passage, I think it's very specifically within marriage. Paul is saying, in effect, that your homes ought to be places where the unity of the human race is modeled in the unity of husband and wife. Some sort of complementarity, I think, actually, is supported richly by empirical evidence at all levels. But to say, therefore, we should be complementarians, knowing ahead of time which roles this means women should take and men should take—that's very different.

Similarly, when Paul writes, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear," does he endorse slavery?

He doesn't endorse it in that he's not starting from scratch and saying, Would slavery be a good idea? He is like somebody in our world thinking about the internal combustion engine. We know that cars and petrol engines pollute the planet, but I can't go into the pulpit on Sunday morning and say, "I want you to leave your cars in the parking lot; we will arrange horse-drawn buggies to take you home." This is the way our society has been constructed, and we're not yet ready to turn it around. Anybody could be a slave in the ancient world; all you had to do was run out of cash or lose a battle, and you could be a slave tomorrow, even if you were a king or a prince. Also, pretty well everything we do by electricity or gasoline was done by slaves in the ancient world. So when Paul gives instructions to masters and slaves, he's basically saying Christian households should be models of mutual respect and forgiveness across that social barrier. We can't erase that social barrier at the moment, but we are responsible to a higher reality, which means we treat each other radically differently within the present structure. You can see in St. Paul's letter to Philemon, a very clear statement that this particular slave and this particular master need to welcome one another as brothers in Christ, that Paul is putting a time bomb beside the institution.

You have produced your own translation of the New Testament. What was the hardest book to translate?

Second Corinthians: it's written like somebody who has just been through terrible trauma. It's gritty. The sentences move this way and that, and they clash different bits with one another, and some bits are almost untranslatable. It's completely different from First Corinthians, which is cheerful and sunny.

Do you believe in the inerrancy of the Bible?

Inerrancy was a word invented particularly by American rationalists, as a way of saying we are Protestants, not Catholics. So we don't believe in an inerrant Pope; we believe in an inerrant Bible instead. The way I see it is, I think we have the Bible God intended us to have. It's full of questions and puzzles and open doors, inviting us to go through but not necessarily telling us what we're going to find when we go through them.

What do you hope and worry for the new Archbishop of Canterbury?

I think it was [former Archbishop of Canterbury] Rowan Williams who said that an archbishop has to have the patience of a saint in the hide of a rhinoceros. [Ed. note: It was "the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros."] I do not know whether Sarah Mullally has either of those things, but I sure hope she does. We need calm, measured, wise, Christian insight, and people do still look to the archbishop to provide that. Then, of course, there is a massive pastoral job, because the archbishop is the senior pastor for the bishops of the Church of England, who are themselves the pastors for the clergy. And so, in a sense, the buck stops with her. Good luck with that. That's a very, very difficult place to be. The great thing is, there will be many people praying for her.

Do you think that the places in the world that still don't recognize women in church leadership will have difficulty with this?

Yes, some will. When we first ordained women priests across the Anglican Communion, there were many people who said, "Over my dead body!" And then actually, once they listen to this lady preaching and see how she does pastoral work, they say, "Well, I didn't realize it could be like this, but bring it on." I would be nice to think that maybe Archbishop Sarah has the chance to effect a similar transition, not for everybody, because there are some people who have absolutely an ideological box which says otherwise. They might say it's from Paul, but actually, he didn't say it like that.

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Why did Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom break up? Her new song 'Bandaids' may offer hints Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM 8 Why did Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom break up? Her new song 'Bandaids' may offer hints Katy Perry is seemingly giving fans a glimpse into her breakup with Orlando Bloom. Following her split with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor, Perry has released "Bandaids," a track about a failed relationship that many fans understandably presumed was about Bloom, given their nearly decadelong romance.

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Why did Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom break up? Her new song 'Bandaids' may offer hints

Katy Perry is seemingly giving fans a glimpse into her breakup with Orlando Bloom.

Following her split with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor, Perry has released "Bandaids," a track about a failed relationship that many fans understandably presumed was about Bloom, given their nearly decade-long romance.

Perry opens the anthemic track singing: "Hand to God, I promised, I tried / There's no stone left unturned / It's not what you did, it's what you didn't / You were there, but you weren't."

In the song, Perry accuses her former lover of not stepping up to the plate in their relationship. She sings that she "tried all the medications" and "lowered my expectations" to no avail.

"Got so used to you letting me down / No use trying to send flowers now," she sings. "Telling myself you'll change, you don't / Bandaids over a broken heart."

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The "Firework" singer and Bloom had been together for nine years before they mutually announced their split. They got engaged six years prior.

Perry sings that things weren't all bad. "On the bright side, we had good times / Nеver faked our pictures / Wе were perfect 'til we weren't."

And despite all the disappointment, she sings, "the love that we made was worth it in the end." The former couple share 5-year-old daughter Daisy Dove, whom the pair has said is now their focus as coparents.

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Representatives for Perry, 41, and Bloom, 48, confirmed that the couple were no longer together in July.

"Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry's relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting," the reps said in a statement to USA TODAY. "They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is — and always will be — raising their daughter with love, stability, and mutual respect."

Perry has since moved on to a budding romance with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Katy Perry 'Bandaids' lyrics

Hand to God, I promised, I tried

There's no stone left unturned

It's not what you did, it's what you didn't

You were there, but you weren't

Got so used to you letting me down

No use tryna send flowers now

Telling myself you'll change, you don't

Band-Aids over a broken heart

Tried all the medications

Lowered my expectations

Made every justification

Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow

Band-Aids over a broken heart

On the bright side, we had good times

Nеver faked our pictures

Wе were perfect 'til we weren't

Now we've got too many splinters

Got so used to you letting me down

No use tryna send flowers now

Telling myself you'll change, you don't

Band-Aids over a broken heartTried all the medications

Lowered my expectations

Made every justification

Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow

Band-Aids over a broken heart

It's not that complicated (Uh-huh)

To ask me how my day is

I'm flatlining trying to save this

Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow

Band-Aids over a broken heart

If I had to do it all over again

I would still do it all over again

The love that we made was worth it in the end

Oh yeah, oh yeah

If I had to do it all over again

I would still do it all over again

The love that we made was worth it in the end

Oh yeah

Tried all the medications (All the medications)

Lowered my expectations (Oh-oh)

Made every justification (Oh)

Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow

Band-Aids over a broken heart

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