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Barbenheimer wasn’t a thing yet when Greta Gerwig spoke to Rolling Stone about her Barbie movie back in early June, but she was already trying to will it into existence. “I am such a huge Christopher Nolan fan,” she said. “My hope would be everybody goes to both. I guess …

Toward the end of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, our titular heroine’s (Margot Robbie) journey culminates in the arrival of an unexpected guest: Her creator, the late Ruth Handler (played by Rhea Perlman). Having just spent two hours confronting the reality that Barbies didn’t actually solve all inequality and are, in …