first 15 minutes remain all over-the-place but as soon as our crew gets to jedha i lock the fuck in and never look back for the next two hours. lacks the richness of andor’s character writing (would’ve loved to see a version of this with edwards and gilroy working in tandem from the start, because the former’s epic sense of scale paired with the latter’s sophisticated storytelling is a match made in star wars heaven for me) but the cast…

we all knew barbie was going to be funny. we all knew it’d have something to say about the “female coming-of-age,” as all of greta gerwig’s movies have thus far. and we all knew margot robbie and ryan gosling would turn in note-perfect performances as barbie and ken. and they did.

what i didn’t know was how much barbie would mean - not truly, not fully. how much it would mean to me, to the women sitting to my left…