Overview

• Materialists critiques high-end matchmaking by dramatizing how partners are judged on metrics like income, height and appearance rather than personal connection
• Celine Song drew on her own matchmaking experience to direct the film, which stars Dakota Johnson as Lucy, Pedro Pascal as a wealthy suitor and Chris Evans as her ex
• Real-life matchmaker Joseph Dixon praised the film’s realistic portrayal of industry practices, noting its depiction of clients’ superficial demands
• The film opened June 13 with an 87 percent Rotten Tomatoes “Fresh” rating yet earned a B− CinemaScore and has yielded modest box office returns
• Its deliberately ambiguous ending has ignited debate over Lucy’s ultimate choice without revealing which path she takes