The Materialists is a beautiful and captivating film that subverts the romantic comedy genre by offering a type of political radicalness in between fairytale and cynicism. This film explores how heterosexual women are fighting against resource hoarding brainwashing propaganda in an era of rising inceldom and the so-called “male loneliness epidemic”.

Oh Barbie, so many thoughts. First of all, I’ve seen it three times, all at the cinema, the first watch, I enjoyed it but was confused as to the pacing, some parts seemed a bit quiet, almost sluggish and lagging.