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Barbie English Movie

Feature Film | 2023 | Drama, Fantasy
Critics:
3.9
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Review by: Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
It’s entertaining and amiable, but with a softcore pulling of punches: lightly ironised, celebratory nostalgia for a toy that still exists right now.
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Review by: Anthony Lane - The New Yorker
Maybe the movie is for Greta Gerwig. And, by extension, for anyone as super-smart as her—former Barbiephiles, preferably, who have wised up and put away childish things.
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Review by: Richard Roeper - The Chicago Sun-Times
This is a truly original work -- one of the smartest, funniest, sweetest, most insightful and just plain flat-out entertaining movies of the year.
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Review by: Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune
The crucial partnership here is the one between director and performer, Gerwig and Robbie; anything Gerwig and Baumbach’s verbally dexterous script requires, from Barbie’s first teardrop to the final punchline, Robbie handles with unerring precision.
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Review by: Justin Chang - Los Angeles Times
The movie is at its best when it’s simply leaning into its own fast, funny, free-floating goofiness.
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Review by: Christy Lemire - Roger Ebert's website
If such a crowd-pleasing extravaganza can also offer some fodder for thoughtful conversations afterward, it’s accomplished several goals simultaneously. It’s like sneaking spinach into your kid’s brownies—or, in this case, blondies.
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Review by: Peter Debrudge - Variety
Gerwig’s girl-power blockbuster offers a neon-pink form of inception all its own, planting positive examples of female potential for future generations. Meanwhile, by showing a sense of humor about the brand’s past stumbles, it gives us permission to challenge what Barbie represents.
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Review by: David Fear - Rollingstone
A big movie can still have big ideas in 2023. Even a Barbie movie. Especially a Barbie movie.
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