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“Voicemails for Isabelle” is not only a “You Got Mail” romcom made for the 2020s, but it’s also the better Netflix movie of the genre than the Jennifer Lopez bomb “Office Romance.” Even the main heroine has a fantasy that someone is going to sit down next to her like she’s Meg Ryan, so, this movie knows it’s reminding people about another movie.

It’s also another case that romcoms still can thrive, even by today’s standards. Some people still follow Capra material, some want challenges, and some can read between the lines. I must be following all these elements as I’m watching “Voicemails for Isabelle,” and if that’s the case, I’m glad I am.

We begin with some high spirits to the tune of Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own,” which is the favorite song of the main heroine Jill (Zoey Deutch) and her CF patient sister Isabelle or Izzy (Ciara Bravo) for short. She dreams of being a major culinary chef making dessert tacos, which is why she struggles to impress her American Gordon Ramsay boss Chef Bastien (Nick Offerman), who periodically pulls off fake French accents. And the younger sister has been thriving through her condition, and even using jokes to liven Jill’s spirits, until her unexpected death.

Jill is from Austin, Texas, but currently lives in San Francisco working with the meanest chefs around (Lukas Gage playing the biggest D-hole in the bunch) under Bastien’s training. And she puts herself in the dating game, which begins to flop for her, until she decides to take a break and focus more on her career.

But there’s one small hitch. She still leaves voicemails to her dead sister as a coping mechanism-even going to sleep to Izzy’s messages-but her cell phone is somehow now the work cell of Wes (Nick Robinson), a young real estate agent in Austin. He listens to them and thinks they’re funny, until he learns the tragic truth in the end. In what his engaged friends (Harry Shum, Jr. and the writer/director Leah McKendrick) call a “sick reboot” of “You Got Mail,” he takes a little “work trip” to San Francisco to meet Jill. And wouldn’t you know it, sparks fly. But when will he tell her about the mix-up?

At times, cynicism tries to squeeze itself into the story, but the spirits and tone are able to support the main heroine as much as we do. It’s a romcom that doesn’t have to think Wes’ story is creepy (think back to the awful “All About Steve”), but allows some character development and the messages of love and loss to emerge within. McKendrick, if some of you may recall, previously wrote, directed and acted in “Scrambled,” and both these comedies know who to be consistent without trying so hard. She also guides Deutch and Robinson with some honesty, and these two aren’t strangers to the genre (she also has “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” coming to theaters next month). And I admire how she would be like Meg Ryan, while others would tell him: “You’re NOT Tom Hanks.”

Based on my recent experience with “Office Romance,” which was too corny and obnoxious to be charming or romantic, I have to admit I’ve had my doubts for “Voicemails for Isabelle.”But then, I almost forgot that Netflix also released another Meg Ryan inspired movie called “People We Meet on Vacation.” Why can’t that Jennifer Lopez movie be more like these two? So themselves, so energetic, and so relationship oriented.

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