![]() ![]() Peter Debruge (Variety) – “Gerwig has made the kind of family film she surely wishes had been available to her when she was a girl, sneaking a message (several of them, really) inside Barbie’s hollow hourglass figure. The director has successfully etched her signature into and drawn deeper themes out of a rigid framework, but the sacrifices to the story are clear.”īrian Truitt (USA Today) – “Barbie is really an insightful exploration of humanity, the meaning of life and the cognitive dissonance of a woman living in the patriarchy, all with a really big heart and style to spare.” Original Score: 3.5/4Ĭourtney Howard (AV Club) – “Gerwig and her creative collaborators not only give the formerly inanimate figure a sparkling personality and a pastel-shellacked pop-art playground, they also deliver genuinely meaningful sentiments surrounding the complexities of gender politics.”Original Score: A. Lovia Gyarkye (Hollywood Reporter) – “However smartly done Gerwig’s Barbie is, an ominousness haunts the entire exercise. In fact it’s deeply bizarre, conceptually slippery and often roar-out-loud hilarious.”Original Score: 4/5 Hannah Strong (Little White Lies) – “Has a few rough edges, but Gerwig continues to dance to her own beat.”Original Score: 4/5Ĭlarisse Loughrey – “Gerwig’s film – while still fundamentally being a summer comedy adventure about the Barbie toy line – is far from the blunt-force cash grab many of us feared. This is a Barbie you’ll want to hold onto and cherish for quite some time.” Original Score: A+ ![]() Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) – ““Barbie” is an impressive and original work of the imagination.” Original Score: 3/4Īdam Graham (Detroit News) – “Barbie is not only built for this moment, it’s built to last, just like the doll at its center. Richard Roeper (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.” Original Score: 3.5/4Ĭhris Hewitt (Minneapolis Star Tribune) – “It’s a thoughtful, funny film that cares about what Barbie means to people and it argues that Barbie - like human beings - makes mistakes but is pretty great, anyway.” Original Score: 3.5/4 It’s a visual feast that succeeds as both a gleeful escape and a battle cry.”Original Score: 3.5/4Ĭhandler Levack (Globe and Mail) – “Barbie is both a master’s thesis on feminism and an Austin Powers-esque romp.” Moira MacDonald (Seattle Times) – “Gerwig’s “Barbie” is, delightfully, more than Kenough.”Original Score: 3.5/4Ĭhristy Lemire () – “”Barbie,” director and co-writer Greta Gerwig’s summer splash, is a dazzling achievement, both technically and in tone. This is the funniest cast I’ve seen in some time.” Original Score: 3/4Īlice Saville (Time Out) – “This is a wonderfully fun watch that somehow manages to simultaneously celebrate and satirise the Barbie brand, its feminism and girliness pairing like gorpcore sandals with a floaty pink skirt.”Original Score: 4/5 Peter Howell (Toronto Star) – “What really makes this comedy click are the stellar performances, from the lead role on down. The film is buoyed by jokes yet heavy with speeches.” Original Score: 3/5 Lest that all sound too hifalutin, there are some punchlines that made me honk with pleasure.” Original Score: 4/5Īnwen Crawford (Sydney Morning Herald) – “Ultimately, Barbie the film suffers from the same problem as Barbie the character: it ends up flat-footed. ![]() There is such visual wit to the film, which ping-pongs between “make-believe” and “real-life,” the two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle) – “Electric. ![]()
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