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The Muddled Feminism of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”

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Nation Weekly
July 28, 2023
In making Barbie, Greta Gerwig needed to tell a story about an icon that purposefully did not have one. “Gerwig’s approach,” Tarpley Hitt writes, was “to literalize Barbie’s malleability in almost every absurd way.”

The new blockbuster movie—full of pink, plastic, and punchlines—is fun in many ways, Hitt explains. But in trying to say too much with the film, the former indie darling Greta Gerwig, “winds up not saying much at all.”
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The Muddled Feminism of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”
In trying to say too much, the film winds up not saying much at all.
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