Spark notes: Why the meet-cute is the ultimate test of movie romance

All right, rom-com stans, let’s line up the meet-cute cliches: The literal bumping into a stranger, the rescue from a social mess, the hate-at-first-sight, the mix-up, the one where she falls harder for his brother, the two wildly disparate leads reaching for the same book in the shop, the strangers on a journey.