‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin

Kaitlyn Dever, left, stars as Rosaline, with Kyle Allen as Romeo in "Rosaline," a fresh and comedic twist on Shakespeare's classic love story "Romeo and Juliet."

There's a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen.

On Hulu, the movie "Rosaline" flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." I mean, why not?

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"Rosaline" is on Hulu

The movie has bouncy comedic instincts, but not enough actual humor. Or heat.

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