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A saving grace

(From left) Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard and Fionn Whitehead as young soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk.

Director Christopher Nolan takes on an epic story from World War II with the help of Harry Styles.

Why this feminist is looking forward to a Barbie movie

Barbie dolls in various outfits at the makeshift Barbie museum, in 2004.

Everything about 2017, from the resurgence of racism and sexism in public life to Ivanka Trump's star turn as Julie Nixon Eisenhower, feels retro. So it makes a certain amount of sense that I find myself looking forward with pleasure and apprehension to a new movie about an old toy: Barbie is getting another shot at the big time. The way she's getting it says a lot about adults' anxieties about children's stories.

Film Short Cuts

My Life as a Zucchini.

My Life As a Zucchini, Battleship Potemkin, The Tales of Hoffman