Materialists (2025) Review

Lucy works as a matchmaker in Manhattan, focusing on the maths to help single people find each other. While her own personal life isn’t great, she is tested with her seemingly perfect match Harry and her disaster of an ex John.

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We are quickly introduced to Lucy who was celebrating her 9th marriage, not not for herself, but the different clients she had matched up! That’s right she was pretty successful when it came to the matchmaking process. We get an inside look at her talking to her clients and attempting to work out who could be a good match, as well as recruiting new clients.

This all gives a rather brutal look into the world of dating and attempting to find a life partner, and what some people are willing to do to find the one. At that point for a few scenes it gave me When Harry Met Sally vibes when the characters were telling their stories to the screen, that feeling didn’t really last that long though unfortunately.

I feel that I need to clarify that I had rather big exceptions heading into this film, I truly adored Celine Song’s directing debut with Past Lives and was hoping for something even a little bit close to that. Materialists isn’t the film to do that, which overall is a total shame. We have the setting of New York City, two rather impressive leading men with Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans with Dakota Johnson taking on the female lead, who to be rather brual has never really impressed me but I did actually think she did well with this film.

I listened to the soundtrack for the film whilst putting together this review and that is an aspect that was very good, the music fit in so very well and I enjoyed being able to then compare to older rom-com’s you know the ones where back in the late 90s and early 00s where we even bought the CDs of them!

Other than that though neither Harry nor John were actually good for Lucy and she wasn’t for them, I know we don’t usually find someone who is perfect that’s not what I was wanting. I wanted it to at least feel as though they would be good together, not forced or for the wrong reasons. Surely with regards to an ex, if something went wrong once it would go wrong again? Or am I just being very picky and unreasonable with it all? I mean it is just a film after all, maybe parts of it made me feel utterly low and sad thinking about ages and my own life.

So despite a decent effort overall for my high expectations this feel a little bit short, which writing this I feel a little harsh but I really did just want something a little more. A side note, I am still very much shocked by the whole surgery to be taller side plot. Does true love and soulmate reall exist?