With Eternity now in cinemas, it feels like 2025 has signalled a bright new era for rom-coms, harking back to the ‘90s and early 2000s.

Between the return of a relatable rom-com icon with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy at the beginning of the year, Materialists being one of the hot topics of the summer and now Eternity offering a fantasy twist on the traditional love-triangle dilemma, this year has brought about a welcome return to power for the genre.

I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting much from any of them, with no excellent rom-coms appearing in recent years – even past giants of the genre Julia Roberts and George Clooney couldn’t quite stick the landing with Ticket to Paradise in 2022.

As A24 movies with earlier US releases, both Materialists and Eternity had also debuted to mixed crit

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