How do you make a story about a ubiquitous plastic doll worth telling? What if she suffered an existential crisis? How do you raise the stakes for the making of the movie? What if its […]
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” an exuberant, sometimes exhaustingly clever piece of Mattelian neorealism, opens with an extended, heavily trailer-spoiled homage to “2001: A Space Odyssey.” We’re at a drab early moment in the history of the […]
This summer’s slate of big movies is flanked by two huge girlhood hallmarks. On one end, we have The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action movie, which reimagines one of the most popular Disney Princesses. And […]