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'Materialists' Review: Is Romantic Idealism Dead?
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'Materialists' Review: Is Romantic Idealism Dead?

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When the lights went down for the beginning of Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’, the theater had no seats open, all of them being taken up by giggling women in their early thirties. I think they all expected a rom-com; I have to say I did too, but the movie was devoid of any of those feel-good feelings.

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