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Julianne Potter (Roberts) is a sharp, commitment-phobic food critic. She has a pact with her best friend, Michael (Mulroney): if neither is married by 28, they’ll marry each other. But when Michael calls at 28 to announce his engagement to beautiful, wealthy heiress Kimmy (Diaz), Julianne panics. She realizes she’s in love with him. With only days before the wedding, she schemes to break them up—only to discover that sabotaging someone else’s happiness isn’t quite as easy or fun as she imagined.

★★★★½ (4.5/5) Best for: Anyone who’s ever loved a friend, or just loves a good anti-heroine. Julianne Potter (Roberts) is a sharp, commitment-phobic food

Twenty-seven years after its release, My Best Friend’s Wedding still feels refreshingly unromantic—and that’s exactly why we love it. In 1997, director P.J. Hogan gave us a film that looked like a standard rom-com but played like a cunning deconstruction of one. Starring Julia Roberts at her peak, along with Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, and a scene-stealing Rupert Everett, this movie dared to ask: What if the heroine isn’t the good guy? What if love doesn’t triumph—and everyone is better off for it? She realizes she’s in love with him