Materialists (2025)

In an attempt to try and expand the sort of films I see, I decided to watch Materialists which is my second Pedro Pascal film in as many weeks. This is by far the worst of the two. The film sees Dakota Johnson play someone who pairs people up at a posh dating agency but whilst attending a wedding she bumps into Pedro Pascal and they start dating. Also at the wedding she meets her ex in the form of Chris Evans and the film becomes a love triangle. 

I can't understand what people find so appealing about romance films because everyone and I mean everyone is insufferable and I didn't really care what happened to Dakota Johnson’s character. The only character that I cared about was Sophie. Her story saw he get assaulted by a guy that Dakota Johnson’s character set up with because he ticked the right box. That stuff felt like it had some emotion to it and credit to Zoe Winters for making the character seem like a real person instead of the soulless characters that occupied the rest of this film.

Not the worst film of the year but definitely the reason why I don't watch romance films very often. They are filled with annoying people who I don't care what happens to them and they are extremely predictable.