Paltrow and Law do a good job of creating the kind of camaraderie that flourished between the genders in the 1930s and 1940s, in films like The Lady Eve, with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, or His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The women in this tradition are tomboys (Katharine Hepburn is the prototype), and although romance is not unknown to them, they’re often running too fast to kiss anyone.
