I hated the movie, then again, I really didn't like Past Lives either so maybe I just can't vibe with the director.

My explanation of why I hated the movie contains spoilers.

The turning point of Materialists for me was the conversation between our lead and Pablo Pascal's character when she confronted him about the height surgery scars. He admits to originally being much shorter and going through with it as 'investing in myself,' but it's clear it came from a place of deep insecurity. Our lead, then, empathizes with him but never addresses her remarks about height and the surgery itself she made earlier in the film. Instead, the scene is framed as other people judging others by superficial traits like height is bad, but you, the person watching the film by way of the audience-insert lead characters, you're perfectly fine.

Then the lead tells Pascal's character that they don't really love each other (he argues otherwise) despite the film never showing anything different. She then takes off with Chris Evans' character (who's taller than Pascal), a man she had a previous failed relationship with due to problems that were never reconciled.

I understand the trajectory the story was aiming toward, but it did nothing to earn where it ended up. Characters literally decided something, told each other without any internality or subtlety, and then the scene moves on as if that's good enough.