The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer" id="mwAY8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barbenheimer">Barbenheimer</a> phenomenon begins as two major motion pictures, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Gerwig" id="mwAZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Greta Gerwig">Greta Gerwig</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_comedy" id="mwAZE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fantasy comedy">fantasy comedy</a> <i id="mwAZI"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(film)" id="mwAZM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barbie (film)">Barbie</a></i> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" id="mwAZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film" id="mwAZU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Epic film">epic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_film" id="mwAZY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Biographical film">biographical</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_film" id="mwAZc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thriller film">thriller</a> <i id="mwAZg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)" id="mwAZk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oppenheimer (film)">Oppenheimer</a></i>, are released in theaters on the same day and audiences, instead of creating a rivalry between the extremely dissimilar films, instead attend and praise both as an informal, surreal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_feature" id="mwAZo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Double feature">double feature</a>.<sup about="#mwt76" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_21#cite_note-13" id="mwAZs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZw">[13]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt80" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_21#cite_note-14" id="mwAZ0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZ4">[14]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt73" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFRomano2023">Romano, Aja (July 10, 2023). <a class="external text" href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23789864/barbenheimer-barbieheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-release-memes-double-feature" id="mwByE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Barbieheimer: It's black. It's pink. It's more meaningful than you think"</a>. <i id="mwByI"><a href="./Vox_(website)" id="mwByM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vox (website)">Vox</a></i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230710223328/https://www.vox.com/culture/23789864/barbenheimer-barbieheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-release-memes-double-feature" id="mwByQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on July 10, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwByU">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwByY">July 11,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt73" class="Z3988" id="mwByc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Vox&amp;rft.atitle=Barbieheimer%3A+It%27s+black.+It%27s+pink.+It%27s+more+meaningful+than+you+think&amp;rft.date=2023-07-10&amp;rft.aulast=Romano&amp;rft.aufirst=Aja&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fculture%2F23789864%2Fbarbenheimer-barbieheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-release-memes-double-feature&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+21"></span></span>