Top 10 Movies: Romance
The highest-graded romance movies we have reviewed, best first.
Forrest GumpA technical marvel and an emotional juggernaut wrapped around an argument that falls apart the moment you poke it.Read the review
Kal Ho Naa HoThe film that taught a generation of Hindi cinema how to be funny and devastating in the same scene, and still the best case anyone has made for Shah Rukh Khan.
City LightsChaplin's defiantly silent romance spends every gag earning its final close-up, the finest thing he ever put on film.
Before SunsetNine years on, in eighty minutes of something close to real time, Jesse and Céline have lost enough to make every line count.
The ApartmentWilder's bleakest comedy is also his most tender: a film about adultery, suicide and corporate servility that ends as a love story you believe.
Some Like It HotWilder and Diamond fuse a gangster picture, a drag farce and a romance into one precise machine, and Jack Lemmon's Daphne walks off with all three.
Brokeback MountainLee's restraint and Ledger's clenched, half-finished sentences make the silence carry the story, even as the second half thins.
The Age of InnocenceThe most violent film Scorsese made in the nineties, fought entirely with place settings, invitations and pauses.
CasablancaA studio assembly line accidentally produced the most quotable screenplay in American film.
Blue ValentineCianfrance stacks the deck against Dean, and the two performances are raw enough that it barely matters.
