'Materialists' Director Celine Song on the Brutal Math of Dating Apps & Why She's Optimistic About Love

Review: Celia Song’s Materialists is All Charm, Little Depth

Dakota Johnson bravely chooses between two 10s as a matchmaker who makes her own match in the engaging rom-com Materialists.

Celine Song's secret to making heartbreaking rom-coms is her personal life

When Celine Song wrote the script for her debut feature film, “Past Lives,” she was inspired by a conversation she had at a New York bar with her husband and her childhood sweetheart, who was visiting from South Korea

Dakota Johnson Plays A Matchmaker In 'Materialists.' But What's It Really Like To Be One?

Dakota Johnson sets people up for a living in the new film from writer-director Celine Song. But what's it like to be a matchmaker in real life?

'Materialists' Director Celine Song on the Brutal Math of Dating Apps & Why She's Optimistic About Love

Celine Song with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans on the set of 'Materialists.' METROPOLIS/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesCeline Song has a gift for telling love stories shaped by longing and difficult choices. Her 2023 debut Past Lives, starring Greta Lee, earned Oscar nods for Best Picture and Screenplay thanks to its quietly devastating exploration of the pull between an unrealized past and the practical present. With her much-anticipated …

How ‘A Man on the Inside’ Crafted a ‘True Rom-Com’ Ending Without the Typical Romance

Happy endings aren’t as easy to pull off as they seem. Storytellers can’t just give the audience what they want and call it a day; they have to make sure their characters earn the uplift; they have to show the work they’ve done to get there; they have to build significance into those final moments so everyone can share in the good vibes. Just look at “A Man on the Inside.” At the start of the first season, Charles Nieuwendyk (Ted Danson) is a gr…

Everyone Wants This Star-Studded New Movie to Save the Rom-Com. It’s Going to Break Their Hearts.

The new movie from the director of Past Lives doesn’t want to rescue the rom-com so much as interrogate it.