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Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent:

Barbie is one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory – a testament to what can be achieved within even the deepest bowels of capitalism.

Dana Stevens, Slate:

[Barbie is] an earnest feminist manifesto inside a barbed social satire inside an effervescent musical comedy, all designed in colors and textures so sumptuous they make 1950s Technicolor look desaturated.

Kate Erbland, IndieWire:

It opens, of course, with an homage to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Grace Segers, The New Republic:

Margot Robbie is incandescent as Barbie, and not only because with her megawatt smile and flowing blonde hair, it is easy to believe that she is a doll come to life.

Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press:

A very blond Ryan Gosling gleefully chews the scenery — or, inhales it — and is never better than when conveying Ken’s forced enthusiasm with an edge of desperation plus a sprinkle of menace.

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(Sorry Ken, we should have mentioned you before the 11th paragraph, but we had so much to say about Barbie).

Max Weiss, Baltimore Magazine:

I do wish the film had tread a bit more lightly in terms of its messaging.

Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent:

While it's impossible for any studio film to be truly subversive… Barbie gets away with far more than you'd think was possible.