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Its authenticity is dark and convincing without trying too hard, and the dialogue feels mostly attentive and honest.

This honestly could have been one of the best films of the year. But it falls horribly flat sacrificing its authenticity & edge for the sake of shallow, sentimental, overwrought emotions.

Without giving anything away, I have to say the ending is strong. And the metaphor of the older boomer generation living off the livelihood, and energy, of younger people is incisive and sharp. When the climax finally arrived, I was loving it.

This isn’t a great film to me, but ones like this have enough of a mixture that everyone can have a good time with a laugh.

This film has some affecting, memorable moments in its second half. But overall it has too many ideas on manhood, politics, racism, internet deceptions, land use, and COVID shoved into its two hour and 28 minute run time.

Maybe I just need to loosen up and try to have a good time with films like this. I did have fun in some parts of this film, but it was too trying for me to get past so much of a hurried mess.

I felt totally connected with this film. It acts like a cultural vessel on the reverence for the past while also figuring out how to communicate and solve problems for the future.

The length of two hours and 35 minutes is too much for this film, because I started wondering, "How long is this?" well before the ending arrived.

I did not enjoy this film, I'm sorry to say. The technical elements are dazzling, but the story ends up being a hugely lackluster disappointment.

"Materialists" ends up being just okay. It's a shame all its ideas couldn't come together more successfully.