This Barbie has it all: eye-popping visuals, a star-studded cast, strange and committed performances, and a screenplay loaded with hefty, existential ideas. Set between a Barbie dream-realm where women run everything, and the real world—where misogyny runs rampant—Barbie seeks to lambast male-dominated society. However, in the process, it creates a near-perfect distillation of white feminism, where the gender binary defines every interaction, but the idea of race and other factors become totally invisible in its purview of social hierarchy...But is it fun? Will kids enjoy it? Can you turn...…This Barbie has it all: eye-popping visuals, a star-studded cast, strange and committed performances, and a screenplay loaded with hefty, existential ideas. Set between a Barbie dream-realm where women run everything, and the real world—where misogyny runs rampant—Barbie seeks to lambast male-dominated society. However, in the process, it creates a near-perfect distillation of white feminism, where the gender binary defines every interaction, but the idea of race and other factors become totally invisible in its purview of social hierarchy...But is it fun? Will kids enjoy it? Can you turn...WW…

This year’s Academy Awards have more Asian nominees than usual, since Asian American indie Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the pack with 11 nods in 10 different categories. However, it’s also an unusually big Oscar year for Indian films specifically, despite the South Asian juggernaut—whose combined industries produce more movies than any other nation; nearly 2000 annually—being part of neither the Best Picture nor Best International Feature lineups. Action epic RRR was a breakout favorite in the west; it just received its second U.S. re-release, and it seems poised to win Best...…This year’s Academy Awards have more Asian nominees than usual, since Asian American indie Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the pack with 11 nods in 10 different categories. However, it’s also an unusually big Oscar year for Indian films specifically, despite the South Asian juggernaut—whose combined industries produce more movies than any other nation; nearly 2000 annually—being part of neither the Best Picture nor Best International Feature lineups. Action epic RRR was a breakout favorite in the west; it just received its second U.S. re-release, and it seems poised to win Best...WW…

A pervasive sadness runs through John Wick: Chapter 4, one of the strangest yet most entertaining Hollywood action movies in years, and a potential capstone to the series. Keanu Reeves returns as the broken Belarusian Boogeyman, yanked out of retirement three movies ago by the death of his wife and the murder of the puppy she left him. The fourth installment continues that story, with John Wick trying desperately to leave his old life behind, and it further expands the ludicrous, globetrotting assassin lore that fills every corner of the screen. However, unlike the previous two movies,...…A pervasive sadness runs through John Wick: Chapter 4, one of the strangest yet most entertaining Hollywood action movies in years, and a potential capstone to the series. Keanu Reeves returns as the broken Belarusian Boogeyman, yanked out of retirement three movies ago by the death of his wife and the murder of the puppy she left him. The fourth installment continues that story, with John Wick trying desperately to leave his old life behind, and it further expands the ludicrous, globetrotting assassin lore that fills every corner of the screen. However, unlike the previous two movies,...WW…

If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our .One of the charms of SpongeBob SquarePants is that past a certain point, you know exactly what you’re getting. Like any good kids’ cartoon, it relies on bright colors and broad character traits, but this franchise in particular also has enough pop-culture references and cheeky stealth jokes to keep adults from getting bored. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run is the third film in the series — which has spanned 13 TV seasons since 1999, and is even getting a new spin-off on Paramount Plus — and it’s an...…If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our .One of the charms of SpongeBob SquarePants is that past a certain point, you know exactly what you’re getting. Like any good kids’ cartoon, it relies on bright colors and broad character traits, but this franchise in particular also has enough pop-culture references and cheeky stealth jokes to keep adults from getting bored. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run is the third film in the series — which has spanned 13 TV seasons since 1999, and is even getting a new spin-off on Paramount Plus — and it’s an...WW…