Materialists
Directed by Celine Song
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) finds herself torn between the perfect match (Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Chris Evans).
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- MrTrivet10 February 2026Materialists is a romcom that attempts an honest look at dating in the age of comparison, checklists, and constant self-optimization. Its starting point is love as a process that increasingly resembles a transaction, where emotions must compete with social, financial, and aesthetic capital. The film puts this kind of calculation under scrutiny, but instead of contempt it opts for a measured romanticism - not naive, but cautious. Although the narrative is told mainly from a female perspective, it is surprisingly empathetic toward men who feel lost in today’s relationship marketplace. Their insecurities, related to appearance, height, or economic status, are not mocked, but presented as real barriers in a world that rewards the “right” parameters. The film also takes a clear-eyed approach to money: not as the enemy of love, but as its boundary condition. Material comfort often proves more important than emotional authenticity, and Materialists does not condemn this attitude, instead relativizing the characters’ choices. Much of the film’s appeal comes from the sheer likability of its main cast. Dakota Johnson’s character, in particular, stands out: outwardly cold, blunt, and emotionally guarded, yet surprisingly grounded and human. Beneath the sharp edges, she feels like a comfort character - someone whose pragmatism reads less as cynicism and more as a learned success and hapiness strategy. It’s a likable, bittersweet piece of cinema.
- Joel12 June 2025Maybe a career best performance for Chris Evans, but man this screen play thinks it’s so much smarter than it is. A few moments literally made me roll my eyes. There’s good moments in here. Pedro’s charming as ever, the main score that plays throughout this is beautiful, and it feels so close to being something special. Ultimately it ends up being closer to the notebook (which I hate) than being anything really great.
- Tyler Campbell17 January 2026I can't help but think this movie suffers from expectations created by how it was promoted. The 3 leads being jovial and playful in interviews and such, suggesting a romcom. Admittedly, as a 36 year old man, I did not look into this movie beyond whatever snippets of the promotion snuck into Hot Ones or something my wife was looking at, so I could be off base with that. But Materialists is not a romcom, it's a romdram. Sure, there's a little bit of comedic levity, but it's mostly slow and tonally weird, with some sudden darkness that really threw me for a loop. Thematically, it's a decent criticism of things like materialism, shallow dating, and how society judges people. For what it actually is and who it's actually for, Materialists might be better than the rating I gave it. But expecting a romcom and getting characters talking a lot about their dating value or lackthereof and trying to talk each other into or out of being with one another wasn't particularly entertaining to me. If they dove off the deep end into the dark branch of the story, they may have been able to do an effective subversion of expectations and made it very impactful, now that I think about it. Instead, it was just a low stakes relationship drama. If you're into that, Materialists might be for you.
- ioan.alex31 December 2025Can't remember what the story was so it can be a nice background watch
- thomasrogers75329 June 2025Came for Pedro Pascal Stayed for Chris Evans
- Wesley B21 December 2025Great cast but ends up being a predictable and average romatic Comedy
- surenth624 July 2025Crappy movie. Dont waste time watching it. I gave it more than 1 star because of the cast but slow and boring.
- AndreiTamas26 July 2025bruh cmon
- N23 July 2025Really unsubstantial and underwhelming honestly… watching her is like watching a toddlers snot strand coming down to touch the carpet
- Sarah J7 November 2025May this kind of love never find me
- monicasablan16 December 2025Long. Boring. Literally no substance to the movie
- radekzb22 August 2025Boring shit, honestly what was that? Word of warning, not a comedy. Just boooring, slow movie with terrible dialog. Avoid!
- Luke Erickson20 August 2025I gave this an extra half star because I like the actors. The message here is that true love prevails, but they take a long time to tell you that. I feel like she could eventually fall in love with the Rich Pedro Pascal. She just needed to spend time with him. It's Pedro Pascal, who cares if he has height surgery? She bailed on a rich week in Ice Land to go slum it with Chris Evans in his dingey apartment? Yeah, right!? I'm sorry she didn't fall in love with Pedro after like 3 fancy dinners and some sex. It apparently takes time to fall in love!? I guess in her Pimp job at Adore she forgot that? The only other thing that this movie taught me is that it pays to be tall. I'm wasting my height, I've been spoiled with how people have to look up to me vs down? This review rant has gone on too long. Peace out!
- vangh129 July 2025I'm thankful every day that I met someone who I genuinely love and that genuinely loves me and that we found each other JUST before app based dating became a thing and made coupling the same as drafting for fantasy football. After watching this, I'm extra thankful today.
- Alex | Pop Culture Brain25 July 2025A romantic drama as suspenseful and compelling as a thriller. Kind of revolutionary in how it wasn't revolutionary at all.
Materialists Trivia
Materialists was released on 12 June 2025.
Materialists was directed by Celine Song.
Materialists has a runtime of 1h 56m.
Materialists was produced by Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Celine Song.
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) finds herself torn between the perfect match (Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Chris Evans).
The key characters in Materialists are Lucy (Dakota Johnson), John (Chris Evans), Harry (Pedro Pascal).
Materialists is rated 15.
Materialists is a Comedy, Romance, Drama film.
Materialists has an audience rating of 6.6 out of 10.
Materialists had a budget of US$20M.
Materialists has made US$106.4M at the box office.