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Barbie

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

Barbie

2023

Greta Gerwig

Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon ...

5.9

35,937

Comedy. Fantasy A doll living in 'Barbieland' is expelled for not being perfect enough and sets off on an adventure in the real world. A Live-action feature film based on the popular line of Barbie toys.

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Closing with one of the most memorable lines of any movie in recent memory, “Barbie” is a summer breeze of a movie and a pop culture phenomenon (...) Puntuación: (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Beth Webb Empire	"Greta Gerwig delivers a new kind of ambitious and giddily entertaining blockbuster that boasts two definitive performances from actors already in their stride (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Greta Gerwig goes way outside the box with her funny, feminist fantasia (...) Yes, the 'Barbie' movie will definitely make you laugh, probably make you cry, and absolutely make you think"
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"[It] is a dazzling achievement, both technically and in tone. It’s a visual feast that succeeds as both a gleeful escape and a battle cry (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Devan Coggan Entertainment Weekly	"Welcome to Greta Gerwig's fiercely funny, feminist Dreamhouse (...) the director of 'Little Women' and 'Lady Bird' has crafted a neon pink delight"
		Nikki Baughan Screendaily	"[Its] message is authentic and acerbic: an urgent feminist call to arms wrapped up in a hugely entertaining popcorn movie."
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling dazzle in hilariously heady toy story (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Ryan Gosling is plastic fantastic (...) Greta Gerwig’s bubblegum-fun-cum-feminist-thesis indulges Ken but pulls its punches as it trips between satire and advert (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Odie Henderson Boston Globe	"Don’t even try to put this ‘Barbie’ in a box (...) Greta Gerwig’s surreal satire starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is one of this year’s best films. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] plants 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"
		Kathy Michelle Chacón Paste Magazine	"Like its protagonist, it is all the things all at once. Funny. Sentimental. Entertaining (...) And, maybe most interestingly of all, a damn good time capsule for what was exciting and frightening in mainstream culture at this particular societal moment"
		Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"Thanks to Gerwig’s imagination, this Barbie is far from plastic. It’s fantastic"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Greta Gerwig takes on feminism and the patriarchy in this hilarious, deeply bizarre film (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alice Saville Time Out	"A pop opera of kitschy joys and biting satire (...) [It] has enough archness, weirdness and unabashed femininity to be completely exhilarating. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Charles Pulliam-Moore The Verge	"An enjoyable time spotlighting a decidedly inspired performance from Robbie"
		Ben Wasserman CBR	"Campy, colorful, and delightfully charming"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Greta Gerwig’s film is more than an advertisement, but a little less than a dream (...) at least Gerwig has made something worth thinking and talking about"
		Sheri Flanders Chicago Reader	"Margot Robbie is fantastic in plastic (...) trailed by lovesick puppy Beach Ken, a pitch-perfect casting of Ryan Gosling"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Gerwig does much within the material’s inherently commercial parameters, though it isn’t until the finale that you see the 'Barbie' that could have been"
		Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"[It] is not everything perhaps, but it is so many things. Smart, funny, cute, sweet, clever, and above all, the most fun you’ll likely have at the cinema all summer"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"A picture that both promotes and deconstructs its own brand (...) Gerwig maintains a delirious but remarkably coherent onslaught of gags, twists, ideas, non sequiturs and scholarly bits of Barbie arcana"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"Robbie is irresistible as a character who is admirably intelligent yet sweetly naive (...) It may be a comedy about a mass-produced plastic doll, but Barbie breaks the mould. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alex Flood NME	"Don't miss this side-splitting satire (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle	"'Barbie' shares the same searching quality as Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Jo March (...) 'Barbie' becomes relatable, and it only took 64 years. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"A doll’s life is richly, unexpectedly imagined by Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A candy-colored confection of knowing humor and bitter irony (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"There’s enough genius in here to make Barbie an easy recommendation"
		Maddy Myers Polygon	"It’s a takedown of toxic masculinity tied up with a pretty pink wrapper"
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"The director has successfully etched her signature into and drawn deeper themes out of a rigid framework (...) The muddied politics and flat emotional landing of 'Barbie' are signs that the picture ultimately serves a brand"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are perfection as Barbie and Ken"
		Alison Willmore Vulture	"The trouble with trying to sneak subversive ideas into a project so inherently compromised is that, rather than get away with something, you might just create a new way for a brand to sell itself"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"May be the most subversive blockbuster of the 21st century (...) It’s a pretty-in-pink f★ck you to the patriarchy. It is Barbie — hear it roar"
		Coleman Spilde The Daily Beast	"Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling made an instantly timeless masterpiece (..:) a moving, hilarious, nearly perfect package to boot"
		Greg Nussen Slant	"The film is at once a journey of self-actualization and a testament to female solidarity (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"An Existential & Electrifying Comedy Cementing Greta Gerwig’s Status As Master Storyteller"
		Courtney Howard AV Club	"It’s a tall order for Gerwig and company to deliver a feature that’s reverent and revelatory while speaking directly to the pressures of living up to an impossible feminine ideal. And yet they did it"
		Stephanie Zacharek Time	"[It] probably is a feminist movie, but only in the most scattershot way"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"Greta Gerwig’s world of plastic is fantastic (...) Greta Gerwig turns 'Barbie' into much more than just a toy commercial"
		Valerie Complex Deadline	"Greta Gerwig strikes the balance between comedy, commentary and camp"
		Alyssa Mora IGN	"A masterful exploration of femininity and the pressures of perfection"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"A near-miraculous achievement from Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie (...) While it’s impossible for any studio film to be truly subversive, it gets away with far more than you’d think was possible (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Lousy (...) What 'Barbie' achieves is being an empty movie designed for the vacuous social media age, in which the most important part is snapping a photo of the poster (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		BJ Colangelo SlashFilm	"'Barbie' takes a glittery pink heel to the throat of anyone that dared to think Gerwig would deliver anything less than greatness, and encompasses the complicated and wonderful legacy of an American institution"

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