India, Sept. 21 -- Rom-coms used to be about more than getting two people together. The best ones made you care about who those people were, what they had lost, what they wanted and why falling in love mattered to them. For audiences who grew up watching romances and the big love stories of the 1990s and early 2000s, that emotional connection was often the whole point. That kind of romance is making its way back to the screen, and American actor and Riverdale alum Lili Reinhart is part of that shift.

Her upcoming film The Love Hypothesis, adapted from Ali Hazelwood's popular novel, follows Olive Smith, a brilliant scientist who finds herself caught in a fake-dating arrangement with Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman). On paper, it sounds like a f...