I tend to like love stories more when love is not the only thing happening to the characters.

The films I return to usually leave room for work, loneliness, ambition, identity, social rules, adulthood, or the much less romantic problem of deciding who someone wants to become.

That is probably why a conventional romantic comedy can sit comfortably in the same list as Her, The Lobster, or Up in the Air.

I am interested in attraction.

I am more interested when attraction has to compete with the rest of a life.

The films around this thought

The Proposal, The Lobster, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pretty Woman, Her, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Devil Wears Prada, and Up in the Air.