What I Learned From Watching All of Jennifer Lopez’s Rom-Coms

On New Year’s Eve, I happened to see a commercial for Marry Me, and reflexively interpreted the film as an act of spite on the part of its star, Jennifer Lopez. “Ok, Hollywood,” I imagined JLo saying with righteous exasperation, circa February 2020, “you wouldn’t give me an Oscar for Hustlers, so I guess I’m back to this!” “This” meaning romantic comedies, a genre, we’re constantly being told, that Hollywood has all but abandoned to Netflix in favor of superhero universes and blockbuster action franchises. Lopez herself seemed to have abandoned the genre in recent years. Marry Me marks the… Read Full Article