Your 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' Reviews
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This weekend marks the release of two long awaited movies -- "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer". Brian Lehrer Show listeners who ventured to the theaters over the weekend share their reviews of the films.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lair on WNYC and we went a little long with that segment because there was so much |
| 0:13.9 | there, there was so much more there that we could even have continued to talk about. |
| 0:19.7 | But that's the end of that segment and we're going to end today's show because we have |
| 0:24.3 | very little time with what we'll call your 30-second reviews of Barbie or Oppenheimer. |
| 0:32.7 | Did you see one this weekend? |
| 0:34.6 | Which one did you see? |
| 0:35.6 | Did you see both this weekend? |
| 0:37.1 | I could throw in the Wes Anderson film but I won't. |
| 0:40.0 | Give us your reviews of these two films which are apparently actually bringing people |
| 0:44.6 | back to movie theaters more than a lot of other attempts to do that. |
| 0:48.8 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, WNYC, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, 9, 6, 9, 2. |
| 0:56.6 | Each caller will get 30 seconds to say something about the Barbie movie or the Oppenheimer movie. |
| 1:03.5 | It can be how many stars you want to give it. |
| 1:06.2 | It can be one meaningful quote from the film. |
| 1:09.9 | It can be just how it left you feeling. |
| 1:13.0 | 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, WNYC, a quick call in on this weekend's blockbuster successes. |
| 1:20.3 | 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, 9, 6, 9, 2. |
| 1:24.5 | So for example, according to the popular movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes, both Barbie |
| 1:29.9 | and Oppenheimer satisfy their audiences. |
| 1:32.7 | Barbie viewers tended to praise its feminist themes while the anti-woke brigade described |
| 1:38.8 | it as a man-hating, woke, propaganda fest. |
| 1:43.4 | This might not be how you expected a Barbie movie to come out, right? |
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