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'Your Place Or Mine' Should Be So Much Better
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'Your Place Or Mine' Should Be So Much Better

Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher are just... fine in Netflix's latest rom-com.
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“Your Place Or Mine” has all the markers of a great romantic comedy: The friends to lovers trope! A script from “27 Dresses” screenwriter / “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna! Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, both of whom have aged like fine wine! A wild cast of supporting characters played by legends like Tig Notaro, Zoë Chao, Vella Lovell, Rachel Bloom, Shiri Appleby, Steve Zahn, and Jesse Williams!

And yet. It just… doesn’t work.

The best romantic comedies are fundamentally stories about personal growth that end in a successful romantic pairing. Look at “When Harry Met Sally” or “You’ve Got Mail” or Witherspoon’s best rom-com, “Sweet Home Alabama.” All of these movies deliver a clear narrative arc in which the leads learn fundamental truths about themselves that allow them to finally be ready for a loving relationship with the other. “Your Place Or Mine” merely gestures at such growth, telling us that it’s happening — somewhere! of…

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