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‘Materialists’ Review: Dakota Johnson Measures Value Of Love Between Chris Evans And Pedro Pascal in Celine Song’s Sublime Romcomdram
A review of 'Materialists' Celine Song's sublime Romantic Drama with Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in the world of matchmaking in NYC
Watching writer/director Celine Song ‘s followup to her feature debut, indie darling and 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee Past Lives, all sorts of supposed cinematic influences ran through my mind from Billy Wilder’s The Apartment to James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl and just about anything from Nora Ephron. Song actually worked as a matchmaker when she was a NY struggling playwright and clearly that was the inspiration, or kernel of an idea, to follow up such a widely praised feature debut as Past Lives which in its own unique way has its lead female caught up in a different way between two men and two times of life. Song has made a film that oddly can be admired by romantic purists and cynics, a movie whose end credits take place over the sight of a hugely busy New York Marriage Bureau visually assuring us sometimes people do find that elusive match, or at least hope so.
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