Anyone who’s seen Gloria (America Ferrera) confront gendered expectations and the challenges of womanhood in “Barbie” knows that longer monologues can be both poignant and powerful. One- to two-minute ...

When writer-directors James Cameron and Greta Gerwig came together for a Variety interview recently, Cameron was effusive in his praise of Gerwig’s Barbie, a film that he says “hit the mark so ...