Celine Song’s Materialists is a formally striking, carefully constructed examination of intimacy in the age of aspiration — a film that repackages the romantic comedy as moral provocation, but often undercuts its own message with over-polished aesthetics and half-completed ideas.

Bring Her Back is one of the most unnerving films to emerge from the genre in recent memory. Directed by twin brothers Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, it’s a follow-up to their breakout debut Talk to Me, and confirms that their jump from YouTube chaos to cinematic precision isn’t a fluke.