It’s tricky to look back at that decade in film culture because so much of it seems be a swirl composed of the last breaths of nineties culture and the nascent stages of the dominating form of filmmaking of the 2010s onward, that is, superhero franchises and IP-based filmmaking. The romantic comedy—which experienced a cultural and qualitative heyday in the nineties, with stars like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan dominating the genre before passing off the baton to Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, and Jennifer Lopez—favored a successful, clumsy, but lovable protagonist, very much
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