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Romance

The Hottest Summer Reads of 2025

These titles vary in spice level but deliver romance that lingers long after the last page.
By Emily Bond
A collage of book covers

The Perfect Date: Nine Books to Read This Valentine’s Day

A great book will never make you regret swiping right.
By Gillian Harvey

‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Blake Lively Saves This Romantic Drama From a Soapy Fate

This dark and melodramatic story could easily have taken a turn into Lifetime territory. But Lively and her director/co-star Justin Baldoni keep it on track.
By Emily Zemler

Artificial Intelligence Wants to Determine If You’re in Love or Not

By Harmon Leon

‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Imagines an Odd Monologue for a Very Chatty Dog

By Oliver Jones

Joanna Hogg’s Superb Film ‘The Souvenir’ Opens Up the Privileged World From Which She Emerged

By Oliver Jones

‘The Sun Is Also a Star’ Is Like Watching One Long, Vapid Instagram Story

By Oliver Jones

The Romantic Clichés in ‘Five Feet Apart’ Are Tempered by Great Acting and Insight Into Living With Illness

By Oliver Jones
Helen Mirren and Liam Gross in Berlin, I Love You.

Helen Mirren’s ‘Berlin, I Love You’ Is a Whole Lot of Stories About a Whole Lot of Nothing

By Rex Reed
Bel Powley and Jonah Hauer-King in Ashes in the Snow

You Won’t Understand a Word of the Trite, Mumbly Holocaust Drama ‘Ashes in the Snow’

By Rex Reed

J-Lo and a Bunch of Talentless Meatheads Just Made the Stupidest Film of the Year

By Rex Reed
Annapurna Box Office

Barry Jenkins’ ‘Beale Street’ Is Better Than ‘Moonlight,’ But That’s Faint Praise Indeed

By Rex Reed
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in 'A Star Is Born'

Bradley Cooper Is Too Handsome to Play a Coke-Snorting Has-Been

By Rex Reed
Gwen Stacy, also known as Spider-Woman.

The New ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Trailer Is Here, and We Are Crushing on Gwen Stacy HARD

By Helen Holmes
Amandla Stenberg plays Lenya, the daughter of a black father and a white German mother, in 'Where Hands Touch'

Amandla Stenberg Makes ‘Where Hands Touch’ an Unforgettable Film

By Rex Reed
Kelly Macdonald in 'Puzzle'

A Movie About Puzzles Will Never Be Exciting, But This One Is Still Good

By Rex Reed
(L to R) Sophie (AMANDA SEYFRIED) and Donna (MERYL STREEP) in "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again." Ten years after "Mamma Mia! The Movie," you are invited to return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA.

‘Mamma Mia! 2’ Is a No-Star, Sub-Mental Musical That Nobody With a Brain Needs to See

By Rex Reed
Keanu Reeves stars in 'Siberia'

Keanu Reeves Has Stopped Shaving, Still Can’t Act

By Rex Reed

Bring Caffeine Pills to Saoirse Ronan’s Snoozy ‘On Chesil Beach’

By Rex Reed
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‘Book Club’ Is a Mediocre Movie Carried by A-List Chemistry

By Rex Reed

Saoirse Ronan Is Properly Tragic in Tedious, Soul-Searching ‘The Seagull’

By Rex Reed

One Star: Halle Berry Aside, ‘Kings’ Falls Flatter Than a Wet Tortilla

By Rex Reed
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades Freed.

Trilogy of Trash Finally Ends With ‘Fifty Shades Freed’

By Rex Reed
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‘Phantom Thread’ Is as Elusive as Its Meaningless Title                          

By Rex Reed
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