While the mid-budget, adult-driven movie market seems ever-shrinking, one big-screen experience that movie lovers always long for is a good, old-fashioned romantic comedy. In the 2000s, cinemas seemed to be overflowing with them, but even the most forgotten of the bunch are exactly the kinds of films we are missing for our date nights and weekend outings at the theater. Instead, this market has been replaced with an endless onslaught of messy and poorly cobbled-together rom-coms that are often delivered straight to streaming. In 2003, George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones teamed up with Joel and Ethan Coen for Intolerable Cruelty, a rom-com throwback that delivers on a high-concept, screwy premise, major star power, and a tight, entertaining script. It has since become one of the least discussed and most underappreciated of the Coen Brothers’ films, and it is due for a rediscovery in the 2020s.
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