The 27 best romantic comedy movies of all time, according to critics

Critic score: 92%

Adjusted score: 96.27%

Audience score: 81%

Summary: "Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry."

Critic score: 91%

Adjusted score: 96.812%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress."

Critic score: 89%

Adjusted score: 96.991%

Audience score: 83%

Summary: "For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child."

Critic score: 96%

Adjusted score: 97.155%

Audience score: 64%

Summary: "Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities."

Critic score: 95%

Adjusted score: 97.878%

Audience score: 86%

Summary: "A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette."

Critic score: 93%

Adjusted score: 98.044%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly."

Critic score: 93%

Adjusted score: 98.118%

Audience score: 54%

Summary: "A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy."

Critic score: 95%

Adjusted score: 99.103%

Audience score: 74%

Summary: "Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love."

Critic score: 92%

Adjusted score: 100.213%

Audience score: 86%

Summary: "After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own."

Critic score: 95%

Adjusted score: 100.437%

Audience score: 92%

Summary: "The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress."

Critic score: 93%

Adjusted score: 100.922%

Audience score: 94%

Summary: "A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 100.937%

Audience score: 85%

Summary: "A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college."

Critic score: 96%

Adjusted score: 101.704%

Audience score: 87%

Summary: "A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again."

Critic score: 95%

Adjusted score: 101.257%

Audience score: 75%

Summary: "A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband."

Critic score: 95%

Adjusted score: 102.455%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby."

Critic score: 96%

Adjusted score: 102.518%

Audience score: 94%

Summary: "When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in."

Critic score: 97%

Adjusted score: 102.762%

Audience score: 94%

Summary: "Robin Wright and Cary Elwes star in this fairytale adventure about a beautiful princess and the gallant hero who rescues her from an evil villain."

Critic score: 100%

Adjusted score: 103.234%

Audience score: 91%

Summary: "Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 103.955%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying."

Critic score: 97%

Adjusted score: 103.989%

Audience score: 92%

Summary: "Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 104.028%

Audience score: 96%

Summary: "With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically."

Critic score: 100%

Adjusted score: 105.013%

Audience score: 87%

Summary: "A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 105.457%

Audience score: 94%

Summary: "A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome."

Critic score: 100%

Adjusted score: 107.467%

Audience score: 93%

Summary: "When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 108.909%

Audience score: 88%

Summary: "Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings."

Critic score: 98%

Adjusted score: 108.909%

Audience score: 93%

Summary: "A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story."