The Galentine’s Guide

Are you wondering how to best spend your Valentine’s Day? Here is a guide to a sweet treat to bake and romantic movies to watch.

BY COPY EDITORS ELLA ALEXANDER AND LILY WILKIN

This modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew” is centered around a highschool romance coming of age story. It is a satirization of the classic highschool experience with a completely unhelpful guidance counselor, the dumb popular girls, and the misogynistic jocks. Pair that with an overprotective father of opposite daughters and a bad boy with a heart of gold,

This film was adorable and comedic. Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) is a journalist for a magazine, and her latest assignment is to write an article informing readers about how to lose a guy in 10 days. Her goal is to do exactly that: start dating a guy and then scare him off in 10 days time. Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey)

In ‘The Kissing Booth,’ Elle Evans (Joey King) is incredibly naive and “not like other girls,” and it made me cringe throughout the entire film. The whole plot of this movie is centered around Elle and her best friend Lee Flynn (Joel Courtney) making a kissing booth to raise money for the school. Along the way, Elle has a huge crush on Lee’s brother Noah (Jacob Elordi), which is apparently “forbidden” in their friendship rules. This is really strange because you

How many rom-coms can Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in together? From the storytelling to the acting, everything about this film was incredible. Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) are at odds. Fox is opening his big-name book store next to Kelly’s locally owned “shop around the corner.” The story starts with Kelly receiving an email in her inbox from her online friend. They chat online until the workday begins. Both carry on with their day, unaware and you get the most cliche yet most entertaining movie on this list. This movie has about every cliche you can think of. However, don’t mistake cliche for boring. Each twist and turn, while somewhat expected, leaves the viewer entranced by the story and dying of laughter. I adored this movie, and if someone doesn’t serenade me to the song “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” like Patrick Verona (Heath is an advertising executive and accepts a bet requiring him to make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days in order to secure a valuable campaign for a diamond company. Benjamin’s rivals tell him to get Andie to fall for him, and, not knowing about her article, he agrees. This movie is the funniest one I’ve watched on this list. Andie pulls one definitely shouldn’t be required to follow strict rules in any kind of relationship, at least not stupid ones like these. My main problem with this film is the relationship between Elle and Noah. This is supposed to be the cliche bad boy, forbidden romance relationship, but it just fell short because of the way that Noah acted. In most bad boy movies, the so-called “bad boy” has a soft spot for the female protagonist, but Noah always acted like a horrible person to Elle except for at the end. of who the other person is and oftentimes passing each other on the street. However, after Fox opens his giant bookstore, it puts Kelly out of business. Kelly despises Joe Fox yet seeks comfort in her online friend who is, ironically, Joe Fox. This is my favorite movie on this list. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, but the complexity of the storytelling and the irony and misunderstandings throughout the whole plot left me on the edge of my seat. The point of the

Ledger) serenading Kat Stratford (Julie Stiles) on the soccer field, then I don’t want it.

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Sion’s review

OUT OF 56 POLL RESPONDERS ridiculous thing after another in an attempt to make Ben dump her and yet, out of determination to win his bet, he still refuses to break up with her.

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Sion’s review

OUT OF 41 POLL RESPONDERS

Another extremely cringe worthy part of this movie is the big kiss scene. Why is their height difference so bad? Noah literally looks like a dinosaur compared to Elle. If you’ve never seen this movie, don’t. Please just save yourself from the pain.

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Sion’s review

OUT OF 76 POLL RESPONDERS film is that the viewer knows the secret but the characters don’t, and watching it play out was hilarious. The only issue with it was how both Fox and Kelly were in committed relationships at the time, and the film romanticized cheating.

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Sion’s review

OUT OF 24 POLL RESPONDERS