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A scene from "Materialists." (Photo courtesy of A24.)
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Why We Still Need Rom-coms 

And why 'Materialists' doesn’t count.
A scene from "Materialists." (Photo courtesy of A24.)

The entire time I watched the new movie Materialists, I tried to put my finger on what this film was. 

Parody? Satire? Director Celine Song, whose first feature Past Lives was so beautiful and wrenching that I watched it on a long international flight and then immediately went back to the beginning and watched it all over again, has followed up with a bigger-budget buzzkill.

D.H. Newman is a writer in New York City.

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