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    This Barbie is… Hillary Clinton? Politicians playing film critic is always excruciating

    by Louis Chilton Jan 25, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Getty/Warner Bros

    In the hours after the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, dissent seemed to swell like the onset of a monsoon. – the £1.1bn-grossing Mattel toy adaptation directed by Greta Gerwig – ! At least, that’s what many of the film’s fans – and – were suggesting, after failed to merit nominations in the Best Director and Best Actress categories, for Gerwig and Margot Robbie respectively. Never one to let a good pop culture soundbite go unaired, former Democratic took to social media to . “Greta & Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough,” she wrote, signing off the tweet with the hashtag “HillaryBarbie”.

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