Materialists
A24 | Release Date: June 13, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
Positive:
40
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Little White LiesLaura VenningAug 14, 2025
It’s sometimes clumsily communicated but there’s something affecting about the reminder that it’s all worth the risk, or maybe it’s just that this writer has attended four weddings this summer. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 13, 2025
When the decision is made, the final act has an almost morosely elegiac mood, as it must, as various speeches and set pieces reconcile its rather trudgingly earnest direction of travel with the witty, savvy materialism of the movie’s premise. Read full review
60
Time OutElizabeth WeitzmanJun 12, 2025
Song has, undeniably, done a beautiful job composing this visually absorbing film. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonJun 10, 2025
Inconsistent but never insubstantial, Materialists is far from perfect, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of a date. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 13, 2025
Materialists is dry and ironic and “honest” while laying bare the hopes that we all cling to that love isn’t really as materialistic as she’s saying. But the rare air of the artificial, archetypal world she sets out to make her big statement in leaves the viewer grasping for not just a breath of fresh air, but hope. Read full review
50
The New YorkerJustin ChangJun 9, 2025
I don’t buy it, Jane Austen wouldn’t buy it, and deep down I don’t think Song buys it. In attempting to merge escapist pleasures with financial realities, Materialists trips up on its own high-mindedness. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJun 9, 2025
[Song’s] sophomore effort embraces a lighthearted rom-com template and then plays its material inaptly seriously—making it the cinematic equivalent of a sugary soda gone terribly flat. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJun 9, 2025
As its second half begins to focus more on Lucy’s dating dilemma, and how she’s forced to confront her firmly established beliefs and rules about dating, the film hews increasingly close to the narrative expectations of the traditional rom-com. Read full review
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