It’s one of this year’s most highly-anticipated releases and, for those of us who are waiting with bated breath to watch Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film upon its release on Friday, the reviews are now in — and it’s been described as ‘dazzling.’
Publications from around the world have published their verdicts on the film, which is expected to gross more than $100 million at the box office in its opening weekend, and it’s been praised unanimously.
The Independent hailed it ‘joyous from minute to minute to minute’ and ‘one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory.’
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The Chicago Sun-Times remarked, 'This is a truly original work - one of the smartest, funniest, sweetest, most insightful and just plain flat-out entertaining movies of the year,' and The Daily Beast was dazzled by the film. 'In Gerwig's capable hands, even a movie about the one of most popular toys of all time eludes expectations at every turn. Barbie is her mainstream masterpiece, a dazzling dream that will touch the souls of everyone who sees it.'
The reviews for Christopher Nolan’s epic three hour-long biopic Oppenheimer, which is released on the same day as Barbie, leading many fans to book back-to-back cinema tickets, has also been received to rapturous applause. Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker Paul Schrader described Oppenheimer as the 'best' and 'most important film of this century'.
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