“Materialists” Review
If Celine Song’s Past Lives toyed with the physics of cinematic love, Materialists plays with the economic construction of romance in the modern age. This is an ideal film for
If Celine Song’s Past Lives toyed with the physics of cinematic love, Materialists plays with the economic construction of romance in the modern age. This is an ideal film for
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