Film Preview: The Materialists (2025)

Film Poster

Page Revisions:

(March 23, 2025) Original
(May 25, 2025) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#3-#7)
(June 1, 2025) New Trailer (#3)

Release Date:

June 13, 2025

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A matchmaker’s lucrative business is complicated when she falls into a toxic love triangle that threatens her clients.”

Poster Rating: C+ / C / C+ (3) / C+ / C

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Review: (#1, C+) Where I’ll give them credit is making the lettering on the cake look real. What gives away its fakeness is that A24 isn’t centered. It’s purposefully set to the side to be visible. but since it’s not effectively cut in half, it seems a bit too precise. Still, there are some interesting details here that make one curious about the film’s content. (#2, C) The selling point of the film is its stars. They were missing from the first design. However, this effort feels cheap and insignificant, lazily presenting the cast for the audience’s approval but without making anything about the film stand out as interesting.

(#3-#6, C+) This trio of character posters have interesting details representing the characters but they also blend together without feeling individualistic, which is an interesting feel for designs that have so many unique elements. (#7, C+) The awful white background doesn’t blend well with the selected image, which have too many bright elements to create a blending effect with their surroundings. The actor names at the top of the design are woefully small. (#8, C) Taking what didn’t work about the prior design and exacerbating it makes for a tepid follow-up.

Trailer Rating: B / C+ / C+

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Review: (#1, B) With the charm of the film’s three stars, this sultry trailer avoids some of the pitfalls of romantic triangle films by giving us a foundation to the story while highlighting its sexy edges. It’s the kind of trailer that might take Fifty Shades of Grey fans and unite them with traditional romance fans in anticipation of the movie.

(#2, C+) The second trailer doesn’t give the audience much more information but ends up making the film feel quite a bit more dull and uninteresting. The characters seem paper thin and the performances

(#3, C+) Trying to turn the “priceless” commercials into a trailer concept is a weak choice. It certainly ties into the film’s title but the concept of the film isn’t quite played out by it. This trailer doesn’t accentuate anything exciting or compelling the viewer might not have already felt from the prior trailers and is ultimately a wasted effort.