According to Rotten Tomato comments thus far, Joe and Jane Popcorn are reacting negatively to Celine Song‘s Materialists.

Instead of respecting it or giving it a stamp of moderate approval (as I did) for digging down into the odd vagaries and downish moods of the 2025 dating scene, they’re angry that it’s not a romcom — they’re angry that they were deliberately lied to, and now A24 is paying the price for that deception.