Toe pick! 
As much as I detest Blinky Grant, there are worse ways to spend a couple hours than watching the likes of Notting Hill, About a Boy, or Love Actually.
I’m a sucker for rom-coms but I almost never admit to it around friends and family. I won’t deny I like them but neither do I ever recommend them (or very rarely at most).
They are just easy to watch and nice when I don’t really want my brain challenged too much and want something light and humorous.
I think The Winslow Boy qualifies, and I watch it every few years.
I overwatched As Good As It Gets.
Crazy - I hadn’t seen it in 10 years, but that was the first one I thought of before I even opened the thread, and it looks like you and I aren’t alone.
I’d add :
Crazy Stupid Love
Trainwreck
Four Christmases
The Break-Up
The Heavenly Kid (1985)
I personally think the very best rom-coms were in the 1950s/60s. Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sabrina (the original…although the re-make was ok), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, my personal all time favorite, Blithe Spirit (free on YouTube!) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (which my brother says sucks but I loved it when I was a kid). There are more but silly to try and list them all.
Blithe Spirit is a real treat…you’re welcome. 
Edit to add: Ooh! What’s Up Doc. 1970s but close enough. Great movie. And one of my all-time favorite movies… Harold & Maude (more of a dark comedy than a rom-com but so great I’m tossing it in here…trigger warning: suicide). Also, The Graduate (is that a rom-com?)
Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind. My viewing is limited to free-to-air TV, and that film is one of several that I’m waiting to see and record.
Now there is an example of a chick flick that is subtle, well made, and with impressive acting. I rewatch this one too. These are the only kind I like. A few of the Jane Austen adaptations make the cut – P & P with Colin Firth is one. One I just watched, though formulaic, was saved by the wonderful actors: a German film called Faraway. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society was another. So was Moonstruck, with Cher and Nick Cage. I also enjoyed Strictly Ballroom. And there are a few others. They come along ever so often.
But the genre as a whole? Not really. When you can see the whole plot in the first five minutes, and it’s just a sappy boy meets girl and they overcome manufactured obstacles and unrealistic misunderstandings film, no.
The pluses – no gratuitous violence, superheroes, CGI, and explicit sex – sometimes outweigh the sentimentality. Sometimes they don’t.
Ha! I walked right by D. B. Sweeney once at the Fabulous Forum at a hockey game. I wanted to sing out “toe pick,” but my friends squelched me.
The original (Bringing Up Baby) was better. Actually, I prefer the 1930s screwball comedy/romances. I think it’s almost impossible to recreate those today – the world is so different – but I enjoy watching them a lot.
That Winslow Boy is great! Is everyone talking about the one with Jeremy Northam and Rebecca Pigeon? That’s the one I liked. There was an earlier version in the 40s or 50s that was o.k., but a little stodgy. Speaking of Northam, An Ideal Husband with him is a good version. I even liked Minnie Driver in it, and she usually makes my teeth itch.
I don’t know what it is about this movie, but I assumed I was all by my lonesome in this guilty pleasure. I don’t remember it being really popular. But I’ve even heard dudes say “toe pick!” so maybe it was more popular than I realized.
I love telling the story of when my mom and sister went to see this when it was first released. There was an older African American man sitting in front of them, and he was getting a huge kick out of the movie. My sister said when Moira Kelly said her “Don’t let me keep you from the trough” line, she thought he was going to choke he was laughing so hard. So, yeah, this movie appeals to most all types!
I loved this! Saw it last year.
Chasing Amy was good, despite the extended Joey Lauren Adams singing scene 
. She seemed fully committed to it, at least.
When Harry Met Sally is a classic.
The Princess Bride definitely counts.
A Fish Called Wanda, if that counts.
Her Alibi is a good old-fashioned “heavy rotation on cable TV” movie that I almost know by heart just from watching it so many times because it was always on.
Roxanne is an excellent take on Cyrano de Bergerac.
I guess I like my rom-coms to lean heavily to the “com” side.
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I unabashedly love “chick flicks”, at least the quality ones. (Hell, I even like certain Hallmark flicks, if there is chemistry between the leads and the script commits to its own cheesiness)
Jane Austen, the godmother of most rom com tropes? I’m there.
Here are some films I’ve seen and enjoyed in the last 6 months that many would call chick flicks (bold indicates movies that could/might fit as a Rom Com):
Alice, Darling (Boy meets girl, boy psychologically abuses girl, boy loses girl)
Close
Return to Seoul
Moving On
A Good Person
Tehranto
Showing Up
Petite Solange
Mafia Mamma
Somewhere in Queens
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Other People’s Children (Boy meets girl, boy returns to ex-wife, girl moves on)
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
L’Immensita
Monica
You Hurt My Feelings
The Starling Girl
Past Lives (the best picture of 2023, so far)
Sanctuary
No Hard Feelings
Prisoner’s Daughter
Scarlet (this is Cinderella, if her stepfamily loved her unreservedly)
The Passengers of the Night
I guess this means I forfeit my man card (lays man card on the table)
And the fact that when I say I enjoyed a move I don’t mean “OMG, it’s the best one ever, ever, ever!!!” means I forfeit my internet card (lays internet card on the table, walks away to the theme from Branded)
Yes, I meant the Pidgeon/Northram version of The Winslow Boy.
Enough Said and Please Give are a couple more good ones by Nicole Holocener, who made You Hurt my Feelings.
Anyone who likes good characterizations and smart dialogue (and doesn’t mind loose, slice-of-life storylines) really can’t go wrong with Nicole Holofcener except maybe Friends With Money, the only film of hers I didn’t like because I found it a little TOO slack plot-wise. Walking and Talking is a little '90s indie gem about maintaining a childhood friendship into adulthood, but without the soap opera melodramatics of, say, Beaches.
Have you watched Hobson’s Choice also directed by David Lean (Blithe Spirit)? It’s brilliant!
Victorian England~ Hobson has three adult daughters who run his boot shop, the eldest is considered a spinster and the other two are keen to go a courting and get married. Maggie the eldest decides that she too will get married and makes her own plans unbeknown to the shops bootmaker Willie who she decides is her man. I’ve watched it neatly 25 times by now still makes me laugh. Charles Laughton as Hobson. Brenda deBanzies
https://youtu.be/OYz8-UYyot0
Isn’t Prunella Scales (Mrs. Basil Fawlty) also in this?
Yes the fresh faced Vicky, I’m not familiar with her otherwise, so Fawlty Towers? Time to look that one up again.