This is an intelligent, hilarious comedy that subverts the conventions of rom-coms even as it delivers both rom and com. Amy Schumer plays a writer for a ghastly, three-notches-below-Maxim men’s magazine, who lives a shallow, hedonistic life, drinking and fucking everything and everyone she wants to while avoiding the complication of deeper involvement. Then she meets a guy (Bill Hader) who is good, smart, nice, rich, substantial, and yet oddly fuckable who wants to settle down with her, and… you don’t need the Hubble telescope to see where this is going. But by inverting the gender roles, Trainwreck weirdly breathes life into the genre trappings it comments on. It’s not simply that Schumer’s character has the typical attributes of a dude—it’s that the way the film enacts them makes you aware of how these films are typically built. by Sean Nelson