After his intense performance The Last of Us (2023– ) Season 2 Pedro Pascal will soon be shining in a much cheerful film with the arrival of Materialists (2025). The first reactions to the latest Romcom from Studio A24 promise a lot of good things.
‘Warm soup for the soul’
The Flim with Dakota Johnson, Pascal and also Chris Evans in the main roles is, according to critics Materialists have already seen “a charming witty, insightful view of love in the time of modern class inequality”. “A warm soup for the soul,” it also sounds. Another reviewer takes it one step further and even calls the new best cinema film “one of the best and smartest ROM coms we have had in times”.
Materialists is a charming witty, insightful view of love in the time of modern class inequality … one of the best and smartest ROM coms we have had in times and a welcome, modernized throwback to the best aspects of the ROM coms of the past.
A destructive indictment against both Hollywood Romans and the real industry that originated around dating. Singles that have fallen victim to such services will feel seen.
Materialists Is warm soup for the soul. A wonderfully slice-of-life story that also succeeds in arranging your heart from time to time. Painfully relating characters, perfectly mixed with the charms of the genre.
A young, ambitious matchmaker from New York City stands for the choice between the perfect match and its imperfect ex.
Impossible fantasy
Fifty Shades of Gray star Johnson plays Lucy, an ambitious and successful professional couple from New York City. She is torn between two men: a rich perfect match that Lucy calls “a unicorn, an impossible fantasy” and her imperfect ex, a struggling actor-om that she bumps into again during one of her chic events.
Materialists from this week
Materialists next Thursday June 12 In the cinema. For a complete overview of all new cinema films that will premiere this week, you can go here.
Beeld: Still ‘Materialists’ via TMDb
