Only because that's primarily focused on being about something else.
Isn't Lost In Translation almost entirely about that relationship/connection?
It is, but I'd easily qualify that as a drama way more than a comedy, without question.
I mean, if we're calling any romance movie that elicits a laugh a rom-com, then what are we even doing here.
Don't see why it wouldn't. And it's another great flick.
I love Moonrise Kingdom. I'll be honest -- I looked for every which way to disqualify it from being a rom-com, since it just doesn't feel like one, and the closest I could find is, an infatuation amongst kids isn't what I'd define as "romance," but, I think I've resigned myself to MK just being Wes Anderson's version of a rom-com. Sigh.
ANYWAY, to OP, a somewhat modern rom-com you didn't list that you might like is
Down With Love, a 2003 flick with Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger as the leads, and David Hyde Pearce and Sarah Paulson as their respective buddies. It's just a send-up of the classic, more zany style of 50s-60s rom-coms, but it executes it really well.
The Baxter, a 2005 Michael Showalter film, is also a pretty good one with a really great ending.
Modern rom-coms are definite guilty pleasure of mine. The pop music of movies. There are a lot more modern rom-coms that I enjoy watching that I am quite aware are objectively terrible movies (
Heartbreakers, How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, What Happens in Vegas, The Holiday (only the Kate Winslet/Jack Black parts)
That Awkward Moment (exclusively for Imogen Poots really, it's terrible)), so I can't really recommend them to anyone in good faith (speaking of that,
Keeping The Faith is actually a pretty good one), but I enjoy watching them nonetheless. The earnestness in which the awfulness is executed is a charm of the genre that I just can't resist. I'm basically the Batman character from
Lego Batman.