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The romcom aspect makes the concept itself more like comfort food than a thinker even though it's pretty intensely thorough in its vision of an afterlife. It's ultimately pretty tropey in its overall construction but moment to moment it's always a really refreshing vibe for me. Plus it's Meryl at her most manic-pixie, an archetype I hate to admit I fall for over and over again in movies.