Netflix doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to high-quality romantic comedies.
Most of their original rom-coms range from average to famously bad like He’s All That or the Kissing Booth trilogy, and you’d have to go back to 2018 for some of their best, Set It Up and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
Vanessa Caswill’s feature film debut Love at First Sight starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy as two college students who have a chance encounter on a trip from New York to London, is a pleasant surprise for a Netflix rom-com.
Love at First Sight‘s fresh take on classic rom-com tropes, Richardson and Hardy’s chemistry, and the film’s larger ruminations on love and loss prove that a big budget isn’t always necessary for a compelling love story.
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