‘Materialists’ movie review: Celine Song’s rueful audit of modern romance sweetens the deal
If 2023’s Past Lives was Korean-American filmmaker Celine Song’s ode to the spectral what-ifs of love, her second film, Materialists, is a sharp-witted lament for what love has become. Don’t let A24’s blingy 2000’s-core marketing fool you. This is not the breezy rom-com you were promised. Song, who seems constitutionally incapable of telling a dishonest […]
