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.

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

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,