What a wildly ambitious, near perfectly executed piece of cinema. Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and company have made one wildly entertaining film. It's both mainstream and experimental, overtly political and intensely silly, sentimental and satirical, heavy and light, and hoo boy is it ever beautiful. It never stops entertaining.

Like this year's other great original film, "Oppenheimer" it deserves being seen at least once on a big screen so you can appreciate it as the artistic masterpiece it is. There is so much going on in the details, both in the "Real World" and "Barbieland" sections.

And that last line and Robbie's delivery of it? Killer.

There is just one fly in the ointment. That fly has a name, Will Farrell. I like Will Farrell when he's centered in the movie. But here he's doing his "Will Farrell, Silly Man" schtick and disrupts the flow. I think it would have been interesting to see Brad Pitt or Ben Stiller (in slow burn mode) or maybe even John Cleese in the role Farrell plays.