This is the brief and unexpected opening of Celine Song’s Materialists, a prologue that announces a certain loftiness in the film’s premise. Or in spite of it, as a sudden cut flings us into the classic opener of many a millennial rom-com: the cosmopolitan heroine at her vanity,

Por JOCELYN NOVECKEl problema con muchas comedias románticas es cuán a menudo se nos pide que convenientemente ignoremos nuestro conocimiento de las realidades de la vida.

How does one actually choose between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal? Well, fortunately, it's a choice most of us won't have to make in life. But it's exactly what Dakota Johnson must do in "Materialists.