2-For-1 Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and ‘Materialists’ Both Make My Heart Go Thump-a-Thump

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CREDIT: Atsushi Nishijima/A24; Universal Pictures

How to Train Your Dragon

Starring: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz

Director: Dean DeBlois

Running Time: 125 Minutes

Rating: PG for Dragons Taking Humans Higher Than They Should Go

Release Date: June 13, 2025 (Theaters)

Materialists

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Marin Ireland, Zoë Winters, Dasha Nekrosova, Louisa Jacobson

Director: Celine Song

Running Time: 117 Minutes

Rating: R, mostly for Discussions of a Date Gone Very Wrong

Release Date: June 13, 2025 (Theaters)

Picture this: it’s the weekend of June 13-15, 2025, and you want to see a new release at your local multiplex. How are you supposed to ever decide?! Especially if they’re total opposites? That isn’t quite the situation we have here, although the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon and the Celine Song-penned-and-helmed rom-com Materialists are certainly aiming for separate lanes. So if you’re a thorough cinephile like me who tries to see absolutely everything, where should you focus first? Or should you try to pull a Barbenheimer and make a double feature out of it? Let’s suss out the situation.

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An Inyeon-Filled Review of ‘Past Lives’

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Inyeon Levels Reaching Critical Mass! (CREDIT: A24)

Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro

Director: Celine Song

Running Time: 106 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: June 2, 2023 (Theaters)

If you’re reading this review, clearly we share a lot of inyeon with each other. Perhaps in our next lives, we will be married to each other, or maybe we’ll write movie reviews together. I don’t always believe in destiny, but when I do, it’s usually so that I can open myself up to enjoying a movie as wonderful as Past Lives.

Grade: Seven Times Seventy-Seven Lifetimes of Inyeon