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  • Gerwig’s Barbie, girls, and a Barbie world

    Gerwig’s Barbie, girls, and a Barbie world

    A Barbie movie on face value, in the age of Hollywood intellectual property mining, would be easy to deride as a glorified toy commercial. She ticks off the boxes after all: cross-generational appeal, an iconic figure and hot-pink image, a cultural reference point that’s evolved to mean very different things to all ends of the…