Let’s Talk About: Barbenheimer! (Definitely For Real!)

Barbenheimer is a cultural phenomenon that exploded on social media this summer following the simultaneous theatrical releases of Oppenheimer—Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb—and Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s tell-all documentary of what Margot Robbie does with her weekends. Since these two films are tonally opposite and utilize completely different colour palettes (exclusively grey and pink, respectively), the trendy thing to do this past July for couples and singles alike was to pull a double feature, thereby supporting both Universal and Warner Bros. during the writers’ strike.

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