Overview

• Written and directed by Celine Song, the film stars Dakota Johnson as Lucy alongside Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, with theatrical release set for Aug. 21.
• Lucy is a high-end Manhattan matchmaker at Adore who approaches marriage as a negotiated transaction for status-conscious clients.
• Reviews emphasize the film’s portrait of love as a market calculation using income, age, height and appearance as currency, with body alterations framed as “investments.”
• Critics praise sharp dialogue, formal finesse and the leads’ performances, noting inventive touches that echo classic sophisticated comedies.
• Some reviewers call the tone emotionally cool or say conventional rom-com beats blunt the social critique, even as a client’s harassment case exposes darker power dynamics.