ALL ROM-COMS RANKED (UPDATED)

I watch way too many rom-coms. I fucking love them, so I decided to rank every rom-com I've seen. And then I watched some more, rewatched some others, and decided it was time to update the list. Here are the tiers: ​

• God Tier. There's only one. See below.
• Great. You can never go wrong with these. They're good movies. Great rom-coms, good movies. 
• Solid. They're not as good as the great movies, but they're definitely better than the good ones. 
• Good. Just a good rom-com. Great date movies. A lot of these are the typical romance movies (fka "chick flicks") that are more rom than com, but I felt the need to include them. 
• Fun. They're just fun to watch. You know they're not good, but you don't care. A lot of Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler movies. A lot of these are more com than rom. 
• Okay. They're just okay. They're serviceable. Your mom probably loves a lot of these movies. Your mom has bad taste. 
• So Bad It's Good. These are the equivalent of SyFy original movies. They're so bad, but I can't look away. Most of them are Netflix original movies. I threw one Pauly Shore movie in there because I remembered it. 
• Something's Missing. There's just something missing about this movie. Sometimes I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but if there was something else—whether that be slightly better acting, slightly better writing, a better twist, better chemistry, or a better resolution—this could actually fall into the "Good" tier.
• Bad. These movies are just bad. Yes, 27 Dresses is in here. It is not a good movie. It is not a good rom-com. Your mom probably loves a lot of these movies too. Again, your mom has bad taste.
• God Awful. This is the movie that inspired this list. It's really bad. 

​It's a soft ranking within each tier. The ones at the top I consider to be the best in their respective tier, and the ones at the bottom I consider to be the worst in the tier (and could probably be included in the tier below). The rankings in the middle are liquid. 

ALL ROM-COMS RANKED

GOD TIER

001. When Harry Met Sally

• This is the blueprint
• This is the gold standard
• Many have tried to replicate it, but few have even come close. 

GREAT

002. Before Sunrise
003. Garden State 
004. Before Sunset 
005. About Time
006. 10 Things I Hate About You
007. Crazy Stupid Love
008. The Big Sick 
009. Definitely, Maybe
​010. Four Weddings and a Funeral

SOLID

011. Notting Hill
​012. Groundhog Day
013. Palm Springs
014. Always Be My Maybe
015. Love, Rosie
016. The Princess Bride*
017. Crazy Rich Asians
018. The Holiday
019. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
​*Great movie, but is it a rom-com? 

020. Before Midnight
021. Say Anything 
022. Wedding Crashers
023. Dan In Real Life
024. The Proposal
025. Plus One
026. I Love You, Man**
027. Midnight In Paris
028. Hitch
**The Brom-Com

GOOD

029. You've Got Mail
030. Sleepless in Seattle
031. 50 First Dates
​032. 500 Days of Summer
033. High Fidelity
​034. Runaway Bride
035. Legally Blonde
​036. Juliet Naked
037. While You Were Sleeping
038. Sabrina
039. Me Before You
040. Marry Me
041. The Notebook
042. Stranger Than Fiction
043. Last Christmas
044. Destination Wedding
045. Age of Adeline
046. Yes Man
047. Love Actually

048. About A Boy
049. Grosse Pointe Blank
050. Along Came Polly
051. The Time Traveler's Wife
052. A Walk to Remember
053. Sweet Home Alabama
054. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
055. The Lake House
056. Jerry Maguire
057. Return to Me
058. Serendipity
059. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
060. The Family Stone
061. Love, Simon
062. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
063. Obvious Child
064. The Fault In Our Stars
​065. The Broken Hearts Gallery

FUN

066. There's Something About Mary
067. Ticket to Paradise
068. The Lost City
​069. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
070. So I Married an Axe Murderer
071. I Want You Back
​072. No Strings Attached
073. Friends With Benefits
074. The Wedding Singer
​075. Set It Up
076. Free Guy

​077. Bros
078. Love Hard
079. Just Go With It
080. 17 Again
081. Long Shot
082. Easy A
083. She's the Man
084. Accepted
085. The Edge of Seventeen
086. Knocked Up

OKAY

087. My Best Friend's Wedding
088. Elizabethtown
089. Music and Lyrics
090. When We First Met
091. Spanglish
092. Just Like Heaven
093. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
​094. What Happens in Vegas
​095. She's All That​
096. 13 Going on 30

​097. The Half of It
098. Let it Snow
099. Just Friends
100. Mr. Right
101. The Wrong Missy
102. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
103. Can't Buy Me Love
104. Drinking Buddies
105. Failure to Launch

SO BAD IT'S GOOD

​106. To All The Boys I've Loved Before
107. The Perfect Date
108. The Kissing Booth
109. Son in Law
​110. To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
111. To All the Boys: Always and Forever
112. He's All That

SOMETHING'S MISSING

​113. Love Wedding Repeat
114. Holidate
115. Ghost of Girlfriends Past
116. Two Weeks Notice
117. 10 Years
​118. He's Just Not That Into You​
119. The Lovebirds
120. Book of Love
121. Just Married
122. Bad Teacher

BAD

123. 27 Dresses
124. Bridget Jones's Diary
125. Rumor Has It
126 Days and 40 Nights
127. The Wedding Planner
128. Five Feet Apart
​129. Love Guaranteed
130. Love in the Villa
​131. Valentine's Day
132. Along for the Ride
133. Employee of the Month
134. Good Luck Chuck

GOD AWFUL

135. How to Deal

In defense of some of my choices:

Four Weddings and a Funeral: I irrationally love this movie. I love every part about it except the ending. The dialogue between the two of them in the rain is not good. 

You've Got Mail/Sleepless in Seattle: It hurts to realize that some of the classics are actually just good. However, I must admit that they have held up better than most because they are good, but they're not as good as you think they are. They climbed up considerably on my list from the last time I did this, so I'm sure before I know it, they'll be great. And now that I have been staring at this list for an entire day, how these are below Hitch seems egregious. Fuck, do I love these movies? 

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days/Failure to Launch: Matthew McConaughey rom-coms are not good. They have not aged well. You might like them, and that's okay, but they are not good. 

P.S. I Love You: This isn't really a rom-com, and I know I included a lot of other movies that aren't really rom-coms, but I really just don't want to include it. 

The Notebook: It's just good. It's pretty overrated, and I hate the ending (the overacting when she doesn't recognize him specifically just doesn't land for me). We'll always have that clip from the MTV Movie Awards though. 

My Best Friend's Wedding: Julia Roberts bats 1000 in this movie, but she portrays a terrible human. I rewatched it, and that's all I could think about. 
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500 Days of Summer: It's just "Good." The reason it isn't higher is because it has become a little overrated. The number of millennial men who claim that it's their favorite movie or one of their favorites and think that gives them some sort of depth is stupid. Those people ruin it for me because they're the literal worst.