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The much-memed, long-awaited feature from director Greta Gerwig is a delightful comic fantasy that promotes and deconstructs its own Mattel doll brand.

She’s in the driver’s seat, headed for uncharted territory (flat feet!). But there are limits to how much dimension even Greta Gerwig can give this branded material.

SARAH VINE: Monday evening, 6.15pm, Leicester Square, London. The place is packed with tourists, office workers, pickpockets, a cacophony of sights and sounds.

Greta Gerwig’s bubblegum-fun-cum-feminist-thesis indulges Ken but pulls its punches as it trips between satire and advert

Barbie—whose full "official" name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, by the way—has quite the fascinating origin story.

BRIAN VINER: Barbie arrives in cinemas on Friday, wafted on huge, fluffy, pink clouds of hype. We keep being told that its a movie for and about the sisterhood.

Long before murmurings of a “Mattel Cinematic Universe,” Artforum columnist Rhonda Lieberman dreamed up a parallel world inhabited by “Jewish Barbie,” the repressed twin of beloved American doll Barbara Millicent Roberts. “Split off from Barbie at the moment of her creation, Jewish Barbie fractioned off, became her own reality, and just went on from there forever, like the unconscious,” Lieberman writes in her two-part reverie, which features, among much else, a musical called Katz...

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You don’t have to be a girly girl and splash pink all over, but there’s also no reason to hide it. I did not need to act or dress like a man to succeed in business.

Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig open up about their "profound" and emotional "Barbie" movie, which reexamines a "complicated icon."