The Joy of Positivity Pick of the Day is the 2023 Smash Barbie

I like to highlight little known, obscure fare here like this li'l sleeper

Greta Gerwig’s zeitgeist-capturing 2023 pop culture phenomenon, Barbie, begins as a sugar rush explosion of sight and sound and glorious spectacle. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a hit of good Molly, but it’s also madly meta.

Gerwig’s insanely popular blockbuster based on the Mattel toy line is narrated by Helen Mirren of the Fast and the Furious franchise.

She explains that in the film’s trippy post-modern universe, Barbie (Margot Robbie) and, to an extremely lesser extent, Ken (Ryan Gosling), are products of the Mattel corporation and live in a matriarchal wonderland where men function as eye candy, partners, or brain-dead hunks to be pitied or ogled.