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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- JoelJune 12, 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.
- Devin FordApril 27, 2026Legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen. All of the acting was extremely wooden and all the characters were genuinely vain and horrible people. I don't know the first thing about being in a serious relationship, but if finding love means becoming like the characters in this film, then I am fine being on my own. This movie seriously make me hate myself and even the remote possibility of finding love.
- MrTrivetFebruary 10, 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.
- Tyler CampbellJanuary 18, 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.
- Luke EricksonAugust 20, 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!
Materialists Trivia
Materialists was released on June 12, 2025.
Materialists was directed by Celine Song.
Materialists has a runtime of 1h 56m.
Materialists was produced by Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, 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 R.
Materialists is a Comedy, Romance, Drama film.
Materialists has an audience rating of 6.6 out of 10.
Materialists had a budget of $20M.
Materialists has made $107.9M at the box office.