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'Barbie' Review: On the Road and Out of the Box
The movie opens with a prelude that parodies the "dawn of man" sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (with girls, not ape-men), and then shifts to Barbie Land, a kaleidoscopic wonderland.
Barbie movie review & film summary (2023)
This is a movie that acknowledges Barbie's unrealistic physical proportions—and the kinds of very real body issues they can cause in young girls—while also celebrating her role as a feminist icon. After all, there was an astronaut Barbie doll (1965) before there was an actual woman in NASA's astronaut corps (1978), an achievement ...
Barbie review: A plucky and poignant rumination on womanhood
SYNOPSIS. Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover ...
'Barbie' Review: The Most Subversive Blockbuster of the 21st Century?
Barbie definitely makes good on that promise, which still doesn't quite prepare you for what feels like the most subversive blockbuster of the 21st century to date. This is a saga of self ...
Barbie review: a feminist parable fighting to be great in spite of
Greta Gerwig's Barbie is often good and sometimes great, but it always feels like it's fighting to be itself rather than the movie Warner Bros. and Mattel Films want. By Charles Pulliam-Moore ...
'Barbie' review: Margot Robbie doll-ivers
July 18, 2023 4 PM PT. Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," an exuberant, sometimes exhaustingly clever piece of Mattelian neorealism, opens with an extended, heavily trailer-spoiled homage to "2001 ...
"Barbie" Is Brilliant, Beautiful, and Fun as Hell
In L.A., Barbie encounters such human-world phenomena as catcalling, old age, anxiety, and the social dynamics of real-life girls, most notably a young high-school intellectual named Sasha (Ariana ...
"Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," Reviewed
Christopher Nolan sets the physicist in a swirl of Cold War conspiracy, and Greta Gerwig tries to imbue a story about the doll with a feminist critique of capitalism. By Anthony Lane. July 20 ...
Barbie Movie Review: Very Pretty But Not Very Deep
Barbie also has a boyfriend, one Ken of many Kens. The Kens are played by actors including Kingsley Ben-Adir and Simu Liu. But Gosling's Ken is the best of them, stalwart, in a somewhat neutered ...
'Barbie' Movie: The Cut Reviews
Spoilers below, obviously. Brooke Marine, deputy culture editor: I really enjoyed this movie — enough to see it twice — and to be honest, I liked it even more on the second viewing. Allison Davis, features writer: I accidentally saw this movie three times. I think two is optimal. Danya Issawi, fashion news writer: I've never finished a ...
Barbie Review: Greta Gerwig Combines Wonder & Wisdom In Pitch Perfect
Barbie Review: Greta Gerwig Combines Wonder & Wisdom In Pitch Perfect Satire. By Tatiana Hullender. Published Jul 18, 2023. Everything about Barbie is crafted with both mass appeal and personal insight, much like the doll, resulting in a movie that knows how to please. Editor's Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA ...
'Barbie' review: Margot Robbie's Mattel movie is lousy
02:41. The packaging of "Barbie" is a lot more fun than the tedious toy inside the box. Ingeniously, a yearlong barrage of Mattel propaganda was foisted upon us and created a resistance-is ...
Barbie Review: An Uproarious, Existential Adventure And One Of ...
Barbie is as much a pawn in the patriarchal nightmare game of American society as real women are, and "Barbie" is a reminder that pitting women against each other is the easiest distraction ...
'Barbie' Review: The Movie Left Us Right Where We Started
Despite the movie's potential, it fails to imagine outside the box of patriarchy. Even though we live in a culture where feminism is still co-opted, misinterpreted, and debated on the right, the ...
Jerry Seinfeld's 'Unfrosted' Reviews: "One of Decade's Worst Movies"
The Daily Beast called the film "as bad as you'd expect." "Superior to Seinfeld's prior cinematic offering, 2007's animated Bee Movie, it's content to be childishly silly rather than ...
'The Veil' Review: Elisabeth Moss FX Series Is Stunningly Fascinating
In FX's gripping new miniseries "The Veil," right versus wrong isn't a straightforward calculation, and truth is more confounding than it seems.The action series follows cunning MI6 agent ...
A Man in Full review
Jeff Daniels rages as a crooked real-estate mogul staring into the abyss of bankruptcy in this lavish take on Tom Wolfe's novel. It's just a shame the swearing can't compete with the real deal
'The Idea of You' Review: Surviving Celebrity
Women of a certain age (that is, my age) feel like they grew up alongside Anne Hathaway, because, well, we did. We were awkward teens together when she made "The Princess Diaries" in 2001. We ...
'The Fall Guy' Review: Ryan Gosling Goes Pow! Splat! Ouch!
The actor has shed his "Barbie" pretty-in-pink look, if not his signature heat-seeking moves to play Colt Seavers, a stuntman with a long résumé, six-packs on his six-packs and a disregard ...
'Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story' Review: A ...
Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his feature directing debut, "Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story" is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.
'The Fall Guy' Fizzles With $28 Million in Ticket Sales
While enough for No. 1, the big-budget original movie gave Hollywood its lowest start to its summer box office season since 1995. By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles "The Fall Guy ...
In Latest Stunt, Airbnb Lists the 'Up' House. It Floats
The Barbie listing got two to three times as much press coverage as when Airbnb went public in 2020, Mr. Chesky said.The Shrek Swamp listing was viewed on the platform more than 200 million times.
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
By The New York Times. May 3, 2024. A feature-length stunt reel (in a good way). Image. ... Read the full review. The coming-of-age movie goes to therapy. Image.
Opinion
There is a scene in "Screams Before Silence," the harrowing documentary about the rape and mutilation of Israeli women on Oct. 7, that I can't get out of my head.It's an interview that the ...
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The movie opens with a prelude that parodies the "dawn of man" sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (with girls, not ape-men), and then shifts to Barbie Land, a kaleidoscopic wonderland.
This is a movie that acknowledges Barbie's unrealistic physical proportions—and the kinds of very real body issues they can cause in young girls—while also celebrating her role as a feminist icon. After all, there was an astronaut Barbie doll (1965) before there was an actual woman in NASA's astronaut corps (1978), an achievement ...
SYNOPSIS. Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover ...
Barbie definitely makes good on that promise, which still doesn't quite prepare you for what feels like the most subversive blockbuster of the 21st century to date. This is a saga of self ...
Greta Gerwig's Barbie is often good and sometimes great, but it always feels like it's fighting to be itself rather than the movie Warner Bros. and Mattel Films want. By Charles Pulliam-Moore ...
July 18, 2023 4 PM PT. Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," an exuberant, sometimes exhaustingly clever piece of Mattelian neorealism, opens with an extended, heavily trailer-spoiled homage to "2001 ...
In L.A., Barbie encounters such human-world phenomena as catcalling, old age, anxiety, and the social dynamics of real-life girls, most notably a young high-school intellectual named Sasha (Ariana ...
Christopher Nolan sets the physicist in a swirl of Cold War conspiracy, and Greta Gerwig tries to imbue a story about the doll with a feminist critique of capitalism. By Anthony Lane. July 20 ...
Barbie also has a boyfriend, one Ken of many Kens. The Kens are played by actors including Kingsley Ben-Adir and Simu Liu. But Gosling's Ken is the best of them, stalwart, in a somewhat neutered ...
Spoilers below, obviously. Brooke Marine, deputy culture editor: I really enjoyed this movie — enough to see it twice — and to be honest, I liked it even more on the second viewing. Allison Davis, features writer: I accidentally saw this movie three times. I think two is optimal. Danya Issawi, fashion news writer: I've never finished a ...
Barbie Review: Greta Gerwig Combines Wonder & Wisdom In Pitch Perfect Satire. By Tatiana Hullender. Published Jul 18, 2023. Everything about Barbie is crafted with both mass appeal and personal insight, much like the doll, resulting in a movie that knows how to please. Editor's Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA ...
02:41. The packaging of "Barbie" is a lot more fun than the tedious toy inside the box. Ingeniously, a yearlong barrage of Mattel propaganda was foisted upon us and created a resistance-is ...
Barbie is as much a pawn in the patriarchal nightmare game of American society as real women are, and "Barbie" is a reminder that pitting women against each other is the easiest distraction ...
Despite the movie's potential, it fails to imagine outside the box of patriarchy. Even though we live in a culture where feminism is still co-opted, misinterpreted, and debated on the right, the ...
The Daily Beast called the film "as bad as you'd expect." "Superior to Seinfeld's prior cinematic offering, 2007's animated Bee Movie, it's content to be childishly silly rather than ...
In FX's gripping new miniseries "The Veil," right versus wrong isn't a straightforward calculation, and truth is more confounding than it seems.The action series follows cunning MI6 agent ...
Jeff Daniels rages as a crooked real-estate mogul staring into the abyss of bankruptcy in this lavish take on Tom Wolfe's novel. It's just a shame the swearing can't compete with the real deal
Women of a certain age (that is, my age) feel like they grew up alongside Anne Hathaway, because, well, we did. We were awkward teens together when she made "The Princess Diaries" in 2001. We ...
The actor has shed his "Barbie" pretty-in-pink look, if not his signature heat-seeking moves to play Colt Seavers, a stuntman with a long résumé, six-packs on his six-packs and a disregard ...
Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his feature directing debut, "Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story" is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.
While enough for No. 1, the big-budget original movie gave Hollywood its lowest start to its summer box office season since 1995. By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles "The Fall Guy ...
The Barbie listing got two to three times as much press coverage as when Airbnb went public in 2020, Mr. Chesky said.The Shrek Swamp listing was viewed on the platform more than 200 million times.
By The New York Times. May 3, 2024. A feature-length stunt reel (in a good way). Image. ... Read the full review. The coming-of-age movie goes to therapy. Image.
There is a scene in "Screams Before Silence," the harrowing documentary about the rape and mutilation of Israeli women on Oct. 7, that I can't get out of my head.It's an interview that the ...