What comes to mind when you picture the quintessential romcom heroine? She’s likely to be sweet, cheerful, probably a hopeless romantic who has been unlucky in love through no fault of her own. Ultimately, she is likeable. We’re expected to root for her simply because she is nice.

Where other genres have pulled at the reins of the Likeable Heroine, offering more considered and three-dimensional depictions of womanhood, the romcom has largely enforced it – and this may be partly to blame for its dip in recent years. But, happily, a new heroine for our times has arrived to change all that. The best part? She’s kind of a dick.

High Fidelity review: Zoë Kravitz is a badly behaved heroine for our times