If modern romcoms aren’t sweeping you off your feet any more, you’re not the only one wondering where the magic went.

Romantic comedies are just not as good as they used to be, according to one of the stars of Love Actually .

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played lovestruck teenager Sam in Richard Curtis’s 2003 Christmas film, said the rise of streaming had led to “rushed”, cheaper productions, draining the genre of the spark it had in its 1990s heyday.

The actor, 35, told the Daily Telegraph that classic romcoms such as Love Actually were made in the pre-smartphone years – a “bygone era”.

He said: “It was a kind of simpler time, and maybe that is more romantic.

“And there were some greats, like Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron, who did some brilliant stuff in the 90s: When Harry Met Sally

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