Everything is indeed romantic, including what it looks like to have a Celine Song Summer. Charli XCX notably said goodbye to Brat Summer during her Coachella set earlier this year, ushering in a new it-girl season by shouting out a few filmmakers with highly anticipated releases this year.

Dakota Johnson plays a modern-day matchmaker in Celine Song’s bittersweet meditation on love and commerce. When you have such attractive players as Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans looking for love against the gleaming backdrop of modern-day New York — well, you’ve entered rom-com heaven, right?

Following “Past Lives,” filmmaker Celine Song returns with “Materialists,” starring Dakota Johnson in a romantic comedy with a touch of seriousness.

Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and the ubiquitous Pedro Pascal star in "Materialists," the latest from Celine Song, the director who made "Past Lives."

Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a professional matchmaker. Harry (Pedro Pascal), is the handsome, rich guy she meets at a wedding.

Materialists” follows Song’s life-changing debut just two years ago with “Past Lives,” which rode critical acclaim and solid business to Academy Award nominations for Best Original

In ‘Materialists,” Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans make for an alluring and entertaining love triangle.

The best romantic comedies in and of themselves become timeless Bibles of life. Woody Allen’s Annie Hall didn’t just speak to the 1970s single folk but also to any teenager in a future era going through heartbreak.

In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.

You are being misled by the marketing of “Materialists.” The new film by writer-director Celine Song is being pitched to you as a light romantic comedy and date movie, which it most decidedly is not. Song deconstructs rom-com tropes in service to a ...

Spoilers for Materialists ahead. Toward the end of Materialists, Celine Song’s exploration of the contradictions of dating and modern love, pragmatic professional matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) reaches an epiphany.