Materialists IN THEATERS

Matchmaker Dakota Johnson keeps her head when she'd rather lose her heart

- Tom Gliatto

The dance of romance: Johnson and Pedro Pascal.

COMEDY-DRAMA Materialists could probably be considered a romantic comedy, except that you worry that writer-director Celine Song (the bittersweet Past Lives) might be willing to risk ending the film with no one blissfully in love, with forever-after consigned to the dustbin. She makes Jane Austen look like a sentimental sap.