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I first made this case in my original review almost a decade ago, and those who want to get a sense of where I’m headed are welcome to have a look. Rather, it is emphatically, almost shockingly, anti-romantic. But Love Actually is exceptional in that it is not merely, like so many other entries in the genre, unromantic. Now, anyone who goes to the cineplex with any regularity knows that the last decade has seen more than its share of bad romantic comedies. What does Love Actually tell us about love, actually? Well, I think it tells us a number of things, most of them wrong and a few of them appalling. So take the film on its own titular terms. Insofar as Love Actually conveys the spirit of any holiday, that holiday is Valentine’s Day-and, indeed, the film served as a model for a few ensemble romantic comedies ( He’s Just Not That Into You, Valentine’s Day) that have since been associated with that date. But this is not a movie about peace on Earth and goodwill toward men (or, for that matter, about what toys Santa will be placing under the tree). Yes, it takes place in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and it features a Sisyphean parade of pop yuletide ditties. Begin with the obvious: Love Actually is not, in fact, a holiday-season movie in any meaningful sense. Which is-and please believe that I am being as diplomatic as I can-utterly insane. The Loss at the Heart of Guy Fieri’s Entertainment Empire Megan Garber Over the course of several conversations with friends and colleagues, some of them conducted with good cheer but at high volume-I refer interested parties to the Twitter feeds of Atlantic employees on the afternoon of November 20th-it was confirmed to me that a considerable number of people not only consider Love Actually a classic, but go so far as to watch the movie annually as a holiday tradition. I’ve of course always known that my take on Love Actually was more unforgiving than most. For me, the news came by way of a November Vulture piece that began, “It might be hard to recall, but the film that has now become a beloved holiday classic was one that initially received a flurry of mixed reviews.” I confess that it wasn’t until recently that I understood the degree to which Love Actually, the 2003 romantic comedy by writer/director Richard Curtis, had been gradually reevaluated and granted the status of a “classic” holiday film.