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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tom Davidson

‘I survived the Barbenheimer experience - escaping with just minor whiplash’

After months of anticipation - of memes, think pieces, hype and a marketing deluge that turned London pink - the summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer finally arrived in cinemas on Friday.

Ever since it was announced these two polar opposite films would open on the same day, the online discourse about ‘Barbenheimer’ has been frenzied, with the questions - will you see them both, which order should you see them in and could you do it on the same day?

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