barbie movie reviews in english

"Barbie," director and co-writer Greta Gerwig's summer splash, 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. So crammed with impeccable attention to detail is "Barbie" that you couldn't possibly catch it all in a single sitting; you'd have to devote an entire viewing just to the accessories ...

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken. Director Greta Gerwig Producer David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom ...

This essay contains spoilers for "Barbie." When we walked into the AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City for the Thursday 3 p.m. viewing of "Barbie," we found ourselves surrounded by pink.

In a five-star review, the Independent's Clarisse Loughrey said: "Barbie is one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory - a testament to what ...

Warner Bros.' Barbie — in theaters July 21st — from director Greta Gerwig is an ambitious and impeccably styled piece of feminist storytelling despite Mattel's meddling.

Barbie: Directed by Greta Gerwig. With Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp. 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 the joys and perils of living among humans.

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.

Every morning, Barbie (Robbie) wakes up in her beautiful, open-faced mansion, waves to the legion of other Barbies in their beautiful, open-faced Barbieland mansions, and greets the day with a smile.

Barbie is equal parts a feminist rallying cry, an educational film, a reaffirmation of healthy matriarchal values, a musical, a comedy, and the kind of movie that everyone, especially young men ...

Barbie review: Welcome to Greta Gerwig's fiercely funny, feminist Dreamhouse. The Barbie movie could've been another forgettable, IP-driven cash grab. Instead, the director of Little Women and ...

Critics tended to be unified in their praise of the movie's stars, however, celebrating Margot Robbie's surprising emotional depth as the so-called stereotypical Barbie who embarks on an eye ...

In the film's confused, who-really-cares-about-logic reality, the Barbies each represent dolls that are being played with in the real world, but they themselves can also cross into our realm in ...

Will fans of Greta Gerwig's other movies enjoy Barbie? "In some ways, Barbie builds on themes Gerwig explored in Lady Bird and Little Women."- Lovia Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter "Barbie balances the incredibly pointed specificity of the jokes and relatability of Lady Bird, with the celebration of women and the ability to show a new angle of something we thought we knew like we saw ...

The movie of the summer may have finally arrived, as the buzz on Barbie is exceptional. The first critics' reactions have made their way online following the Sunday night premiere of the movie, which stars Margot Robbie as the titular doll and Ryan Gosling as Ken. Co-written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig with fellow Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, Barbie is ...

Playing with Barbies, after all, is the D.I.Y. version of adaptation, the enactment in private of the kind of free and wild play that Gerwig (who wrote the script with her romantic and creative ...

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 ...

The movie follows "Stereotypical Barbie" (Margot Robbie) and her handsome but insecure (boy)friend, Ken (Ryan Gosling), as they venture into the human world and discover the shocking-to-them truth that Barbie dolls didn't actually solve the problems of sexism and patriarchal control. While there's no sex in the movie (the Barbies and Kens are ...

Barbie's (Margot Robbie) perfect life is thrown into chaos when she starts having intrusive thoughts about death. Desperate to restore order, she embarks on a mission into the real world to ...

For roughly one hour, Barbie is a delightful journey into a satirical world of pastels and fluorescents, where everything is awesome and pink rules. With its Lego Movie inspired approach to bridging the "real world" with that of dolls and toys, the film takes jabs at franchising and marketing while being ultra careful not to turn off true fans or bite the hand that feeds it (that would be ...