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By Alex Flood (24) for NME (146) on 18 Jul 2023

Sprinkled throughout are marketing messages (“Barbie means you can be anything”) that sound like they come straight from a press release…

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By Jane Crowther (96) for Total Film (3,532) on 18 Jul 2023

It’s a relief to discover that the Lady Bird/Little Women director’s tale of a dress-up doll is profound, silly, moving, smart, existential…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 18 Jul 2023

This is a saga of self-realization, filtered through both the spirit of free play and the sense that it’s not all fun and games in the real…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Jul 2023

By showing a sense of humor about the brand’s past stumbles, it gives us permission to challenge what Barbie represents — not at all what…

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By Beth Webb (40) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Jul 2023

Greta Gerwig delivers a new kind of ambitious and giddily entertaining blockbuster that boasts two definitive performances from actors already…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 18 Jul 2023

Greta Gerwig takes on feminism and the patriarchy in this hilarious, deeply bizarre film…

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By Alice Saville (4) for Time Out (7,510) on 18 Jul 2023

This is a wonderfully fun watch that somehow manages to simultaneously celebrate and satirise the Barbie brand, its feminism and girliness…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Jul 2023

Whatever you think of “Barbie,” the mere existence of this smart, funny, conceptually playful, sartorially dazzling comic fantasy speaks…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Jul 2023

Barbie never descends into a cheap girls-versus-boys final showdown; it just reckons with the different ways self-image gets sold to us, the…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Jul 2023

Viewers who have nurtured a loving if complicated relationship with Barbie might feel seen by the end of the film…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Jul 2023

Barbie is an impressive and original work of the imagination…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 18 Jul 2023

Gerwig does much within the material’s inherently commercial parameters, though it isn’t until the finale — capped by a sharply funny,…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 18 Jul 2023

All told, Barbie is a fascinating movie, even if it is occasionally a little frustrating and often more fun to look at than it is laugh-out-loud…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 18 Jul 2023

There is plenty in Barbie to be delighted by, even moved by…

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By Lovia Gyarkye (142) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 Jul 2023

Barbie is driven by jokes — sometimes laugh-out-loud, always chuckle-worthy — that poke light fun at Mattel, prod the ridiculousness of…

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By Fran Hoepfner (33) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Jul 2023

It’s difficult to accept Barbie as a satire when the filmmakers’ earnest enjoyment of the cars, the houses, the outfits, and even the toy…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 18 Jul 2023

There’s a streak of defensiveness to Barbie, as though it’s trying to anticipate and acknowledge any critiques lodged against it before…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 18 Jul 2023

It’s true that Barbie does many of the things we’ve been promised: there is much mocking and loving of Barbie, and plenty of skewering…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 18 Jul 2023

It’s entertaining and amiable, but with a softcore pulling of punches: lightly ironised, celebratory nostalgia for a toy that still exists…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Jul 2023

Barbie is a template for how not to write a crowd-pleasing Hollywood feature…

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