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Editor’s note: This article contains plot spoilers for “Barbie.”

Hollywood worships big movie franchises, so fans can expect "Barbie" sequels.

In a world full of Kens, some turn out to be Allan. Heres why Michael Cera is so valuable to Greta Gerwigs Barbie.

It's been a summer of Barbie, including a movie starring Margot Robbie and a newly re-released book, "The Story of Barbie."

In June of 1952, the Bild tabloid was looking for a placeholder for an empty section of their paper when Reinhard Beuthien drew a blonde lady with a ponytail...

Barbie remains what it's always been: a vessel for unattainable beauty standards, the vapidity of feminism, the centering of whiteness.

“Now feel,” utters Barbie inventor Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman) to so-called “Stereotypical Barbie’’ portrayed by Margot Robbie as a montage of what it means to be a woman cues to

From an iconic toy, a mainstay for children around the world for decades, to an economic powerhouse in her own right, Barbie is undoubtedly an iconic pop culture figure. Created by Ruth Handler, the...

The battle of the blockbusters between Barbie and Oppenheimer is the last stand for traditional moviegoing. It was almost nostalgic to sit through months of trailers as the studios ginned up an imaginary rivalry between Barbie and Bobby. Reading about the payoff, the fourth-most lucrative weekend in box office history, felt like a collective triumph. This was how show business used to work, and how mass entertainment once united a nation.

Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sound of Freedom.