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With cozy season officially upon us — that glorious time of the year where couch-rotting isn't just tolerated, it's encouraged — you might be looking for that next great movie to cuddle up to this winter. And rom-coms are always the answer: sweet, sunny little stories that will warm your chilled heart through with memorable meet-cutes, swoon-worthy montages, great soundtracks and, graciously, a "happily ever after" ending.
One of the best streaming services around, Prime Video is packed with romantic comedies that you'll fall in love with, whether you're into rewatching a 1990s Hugh Grant classic for the billionth time (guilty!) or checking out one of the most acclaimed recent additions to the fan-favorite genre.
'The Big Sick'
Having one-half of a movie's romantic pair placed in a medically induced coma for a good amount of screentime might not sound like the coziest watch, but this 2017 Michael Showalter-directed romance is aided by the fact that you already know there's a happy ending going in: The Oscar-nominated script is based on the real-life courtship between star Kumail Nanjiani and his writer-wife Emily V. Gordon (of whom Zoe Kazan plays a fictional version in the film).
Like Nanjiani, his character is a Pakistan-born comedian who catches feelings for a grad student, only for her to contract a mysterious illness and leave him to navigate family dynamics and culture clashes with her parents (played by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano).
With a 98% approval rating, the critical consensus over on Rotten Tomatoes praises the comedy as "funny, heartfelt, and intelligent," using "its appealing leads and cross-cultural themes to prove the standard romcom formula still has some fresh angles left to explore."
Watch "The Big Sick" on Prime Video now
'Definitely Maybe'
In the middle of his late-2000s rom-com era, Ryan Reynolds led this heartwarming 2008 Adam Brooks movie as Will Hayes, a thirtysomething Manhattanite dad who tries to help his daughter (Abigail Breslin) understand his impending divorce by telling her the story of his past romantic relationships and how he ended up marrying her mother.
Cleverly set up as a romantic whodunnit, the film features the luminous trio of Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz and Elizabeth Banks as the women of Will's past, with an unexpected twist at the end. A.O. Scott of The New York Times called it "a nimble and winning little romance," while Dennis Harvey of Variety praised its "charm" and "depth."
Watch "Definitely, Maybe" on Prime Video now
'Four Weddings and a Funeral'
Before "Notting Hill," before "Bridget Jones's Diary," before "Love Actually," there was "Four Weddings and a Funeral," the movie that made Hugh Grant a rom-com legend. In the 1994 Richard Curtis-penned classic, the floppy-haired Brit plays Charles, a lovestruck London bachelor navigating social occasions and romantic hijinks with his close circle of friends (played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow and John Hannah, among others).
Charles's singleton status takes a turn when he encounters Carrie, a beguiling American played by Andie MacDowell, who keeps popping up at said weddings and funerals with her older, wealthy fiancé Hamish. It's a romantic comedy, so this isn't much of a spoiler, but it all works out in the end, with one of the best, rain-soaked declarations of love on film.
Watch Four Weddings and a Funeral on Prime Video now
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