Best English Romance Movies of All Time

Michael Curtiz · 102 min · Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, show up to his cafe one day, Rick faces a tough challenge which will bring up unforeseen complications, heartbreak and ultimately an excruciating decision to make.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (8.1/10 on TMDb (6122 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly · 103 min · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the movie theaters. In reality, Don barely tolerates her, while Lina, despite thinking Don beneath her, simplemindedly believes what she sees on screen in order to bolster her own stardom and sense of self-importance. R.F. Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until The Jazz Singer (1927) becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R.F. knows Monumental, most specifically in the form of Don and Lina, have to jump on the talking picture bandwagon, despite no one at the studio knowing anything about the technology. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's ideas man and musical director. And by this time, Don has secretly started dating Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who is trying to make it big in pictures herself. Don and Kathy's relationship is despite their less than friendly initial meeting. Cosmo and Kathy help Don, who had worked his way up through the movie ranks to stardom, try make the leap to talking picture stardom, with Kathy following along the way. However, they have to overcome the technological issues. But the bigger problem is Lina, who will do anything to ensure she also makes the successful leap into talking pictures, despite her own inabilities and at anyone and everyone else's expense if they get in her way, especially Kathy as Don's off screen girlfriend and possibly his new talking picture leading lady.

Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.3/10 on IMDb (282,203 votes), 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 99/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Charles Chaplin · 87 min · Charles Chaplin Productions

Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.5/10 on IMDb (276,967 votes), 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 96/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Charles Chaplin · 87 min

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.5/10 on IMDb (215,345 votes), 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 99/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Alfred Hitchcock · 128 min · Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Following his early retirement as a detective from the San Francisco Police Department, John Ferguson - Scottie to his friends - becomes obsessed with two women in succession, those obsessions which trouble his long time friend and former fiancée, Midge Wood, a designer of women's undergarments. The first is wealthy and elegant platinum blonde Madeleine Elster, the wife of his college acquaintance Gavin Elster, who hires John to follow her in Gavin's belief that she may be a danger to herself in thinking that she has recently been possessed by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes, Madeleine's great-grandmother who she knows nothing about, but who Gavin knows committed suicide in being mentally unbalanced when she was twenty-six, Madeleine's current age. The second is Judy Barton, who John spots on the street one day. Judy is a working class girl, but what makes John obsessed with her is that, despite her working class style and her brunette hair, she is the spitting image of Madeleine, into who he tries to transform Judy. The initial question that John has is if there is some connection between Madeleine and Judy. What happens between John and individually with Madeleine and Judy is affected by the reason John took that early retirement: a recent workplace incident that showed that he is acrophobic which leads to a severe case of vertigo whenever he looks down from tall heights.

Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.2/10 on IMDb (458,761 votes), 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 100/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Billy Wilder · 121 min · Mirisch Company

After two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords.

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.2/10 on IMDb (304,528 votes), 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 98/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Billy Wilder · 125 min · The Mirisch Company

As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger are now feeling neglected as Baxter no longer needs their assistance in moving up.

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.3/10 on IMDb (217,548 votes), 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

William Wyler · 170 min · Samuel Goldwyn Productions

The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.

Cast: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.1/10 on IMDb (77,032 votes), 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Victor Fleming · 238 min

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.2/10 on IMDb (354,268 votes), 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, 97/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Michel Gondry · 108 min · Anonymous Content / This is that

Much to his surprise, timid Joel Barish is shocked to discover that the love of his life, sparky Clementine, has had him erased from her memory. To pay her back in the same coin, poor Joel summons up the courage to undergo a painless but intricate medical procedure to do the same, utterly unaware that darkness is an essential part of the light. Now, as hurt and angry Joel's ugly recollections of Clementine gradually fade away, giving way to a soulless black void, suddenly, he begins having second thoughts, toying with the idea of stopping the irreversible process. In the end, is ignorance really bliss?

Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.3/10 on IMDb (1,166,070 votes), 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 89/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Richard Linklater · 80 min · Castle Rock Entertainment / Detour Filmproduction

Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.1/10 on IMDb (309,299 votes), 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Richard Linklater · 101 min · Castle Rock Entertainment / Detour Filmproduction / Filmhaus Films

American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away?

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.1/10 on IMDb (373,558 votes), 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 79/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Gus Van Sant · 126 min · Miramax Films / Be Gentlemen{{cite web / url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/60750 / title=Good Will Hunting (1997) / work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films / access-date=January 19, 2018 / archive-date=January 19, 2018 / archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175520/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/60750 / url-status=live / A Band Apart / Lawrence Bender Productions

A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.

Cast: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.4/10 on IMDb (1,213,877 votes), 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 71/100 on Metacritic), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Buster Keaton · 45 min · Metro Pictures Corporation

A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective. He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. He gets rid of the projectionist by stealing a pocket watch belonging to the girl's father - which he pawns to buy her an expensive box of candy. He then slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist's pocket and subsequently is found by the police. He doesn't have much luck but in his dreams, he the debonair and renowned detective Sherlock Jr. who faces danger and solves the crime. In real life, the girl solves crimes quickly.

Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton

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AI verdict: Based on aggregated scores (8.2/10 on IMDb (64,220 votes), 87% on Rotten Tomatoes), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Robert Zemeckis · 142 min · United States · Paramount Pictures, The Steve Tisch Company, Wendy Finerman Productions

Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

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Box office: $678,226,465 worldwide ($330,455,270 domestic; $24,450,602 opening weekend) · Awards: Won 6 Oscars; 51 wins & 74 nominations total.

AI verdict: Forrest Gump's #12 spot on IMDb's all-time Top Rated Movies chart (2.5M votes) against a comparatively restrained 75% RT score captures a real critical/audience divide — 6 Oscar wins including Best Picture didn't fully settle the debate over whether its sentimentality is earned or glib, a discussion that's persisted for three decades.

Curry Barker · 109 min · United States · Capstone Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Tea Shop Productions

Baron "Bear" Bailey breaks a novelty charm to force his co-worker Nikki Freeman to love him, but the supernatural compulsion warps her mind into violent obsession, trapping him in a nightmare he cannot wish away.

Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson

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Box office: $474,780,890 worldwide ($262,774,890 domestic; $17,196,855 opening weekend) · Awards: 7 wins & 15 nominations total.

AI verdict: Obsession's $474.8M worldwide gross on a $750,000 budget is one of the greatest ROI stories in recent horror — and unlike most micro-budget breakouts, both critics (77 Metascore) and audiences (7.9 IMDb, 291K votes) actually back it up, suggesting Curry Barker's cursed-charm premise is the rare high-concept horror hook that delivers on its promise rather than just its marketing.

Olivia Wilde · 107 min · Annapurna Pictures / FilmNation Entertainment

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.

Cast: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (7.8/10 on TMDb (105 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

James Cameron · 194 min · United States, Mexico · 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

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Box office: $2,264,812,968 worldwide ($674,354,882 domestic; $28,638,131 opening weekend) · Awards: Won 11 Oscars; 126 wins & 84 nominations total.

AI verdict: Titanic's 11 Oscar wins, $2.26B worldwide gross, and enduring 8.0 IMDb average from 1.4M votes make it one of the few films to dominate simultaneously at the box office, the awards circuit, and in lasting cultural memory — a combination almost no other film has matched since.

Hayley Kiyoko · 95 min · Marc Platt Productions / BuzzFeed Studios

After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.

Cast: Maya da Costa, Myra Molloy, Zach Braff

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (7.6/10 on TMDb (59 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Damien Chazelle · 129 min · Summit Entertainment / Gilbert Films

Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (7.9/10 on TMDb (18278 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Jon M. Chu · 160 min · Universal Pictures

A vivid reimagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz, Wicked spotlights the untold stories of Oz's most famous (or infamous) characters, namely the Wicked Witch of the West and her unlikely friend, Glinda the Good Witch. The show follows green-skinned star Elphaba from birth to college and through the life-changing events which eventually label her "wicked," introducing spoiled rich girl Glinda, local prince and heartthrob Fiyero and even the Wizard of Oz himself, a troubled man very unlike the one you may remember. As Elphaba, a passionate political activist if there ever was one, fights injustice and seeks to undo the mistakes of the past, dark secrets and personal tragedies shape the history of Oz, paying homage to the classic Wizard of Oz story while simultaneously changing fans' understanding of it forever. A cautionary tale about love, friendship and trust, Wicked effortlessly reveals that there are indeed two sides to every story.

Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh

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Box office: $701 million worldwide

AI verdict: Wicked's 88% RT score and $701M gross prove that splitting a beloved musical into two films can work when the performances — especially Erivo's — carry the emotional weight.

Ron Howard · 135 min · Imagine Entertainment{{cite web / url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53925 / title=A Beautiful Mind (2002) / work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films / access-date=December 20, 2020

Mathematician John Nash rises to prominence at Princeton with his groundbreaking theories in game theory. While achieving academic success, he begins experiencing paranoid delusions and hallucinations, straining his relationships with his wife Alicia and colleagues. Nash struggles with schizophrenia, gradually learning to distinguish reality from illusion while continuing his work. The film explores genius, mental illness, love, and perseverance, showing the challenges of balancing personal struggles with professional achievement.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (7.9/10 on TMDb (11201 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Hettie Macdonald · 92 min · Channel Four Films / World Productions

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

Cast: Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (7.2/10 on TMDb (359 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Alicia MacDonald · 111 min · Working Title Films / Parkville Pictures

When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

Cast: Spike Fearn, Angourie Rice, Cora Kirk

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (6.8/10 on TMDb (33 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Adrian Chiarella · 88 min · Causeway Films / Salmira Productions

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.

Cast: Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Mia Wasikowska

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (6.8/10 on TMDb (494 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Griffin Dunne · 104 min · Di Novi Pictures / Fortis Films

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (6.8/10 on TMDb (1775 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

John McTiernan · 113 min · United Artists / Irish DreamTime

Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can't get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary

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Awards: 3 wins & 2 nominations total.

AI verdict: Landing at the same 6.9 IMDb average as the film it remakes, this version trades McQueen and Dunaway's understated cool for a slicker, more plot-forward caper — its slightly higher 72 Metacritic score against a slightly lower 69% Rotten Tomatoes tally suggests critics respected the craftsmanship even where audience nostalgia still favors the original.

Norman Jewison · 102 min · The Mirisch Corporation / Simkoe / Solar Productions

Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew enough about the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. She begins a tight watch on his every move and begins seeing him socially. How does the planner of the perfect crime react to pressure?

Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke

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Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 5 nominations total.

AI verdict: The Thomas Crown Affair's 6.9 IMDb average and 70% Rotten Tomatoes score reflect a film now valued more for its style than its plotting — the split-screen editing and Michel Legrand's Oscar-winning score outlasted the caper itself, influencing the glossy-heist genre (including its own 1999 remake) far more than its middling numeric scores suggest.

Will Gluck · 102 min · Universal Pictures / Olive Bridge Entertainment

Two strangers crash into each other in an ever-so-slightly fictionalized New York on the one night when single people are allowed to have sex. Recently dumped Owen and hopeful romantic Allie may be the only two singles in the city looking for more than a quick encounter. They both feel a spark when they meet, but a series of missteps and side quests will complicate their night. From Will Gluck, the writer-director of Anyone But You and Friends with Benefits, comes a fresh, funny, swoony original romantic comedy about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year.

Cast: Monica Barbaro, Callum Turner, Maya Hawke

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (6.4/10 on TMDb (5 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Tom Shadyac · 95 min · Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment

When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn

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AI verdict: Based on TMDb's aggregated score (5.6/10 on TMDb (3171 votes)), this is a data-driven snapshot rather than an editorial take.

Emerald Fennell · 136 min · Warner Bros. Pictures / MRC

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Cast: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau

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Box office: N/A

AI verdict: Wuthering Heights sits in a critical middle ground — the mixed scores suggest a film that's visually striking but divisive in execution, likely to appeal most to fans of Fennell's distinctive directorial style rather than Brontë purists.