The art of the romantic comedy has been lost in recent years. We clearly want it back, we have seen recent success stories in the genre, and yet Materialists feels like a warm blanket consuming all us rom-com lovers.
The Celine Song film throws us into the romantic world of Manhattan. Allusive, expensive, and yet all consuming, the city is just as much part of Materialists as is John (Chris Evans), Harry (Pedro Pascal), and Lucy (Dakota Johnson). Lucy is a match maker who puts on an air of someone who has her life together but through Song’s brilliant script, we see just how flawed and messy Lucy really is.
