3. 16 January, Barbie (2022)

Barbie takes a ride from her dream house to reality as Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig takes a ride from her dream house to reality in a cinematic reinvention of Mattel’s most (in)famous toy. It comes on like a sugar-rush mashup of Pixar’s Toy Story 2, Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, the cult live-action feature Josie and the Pussycats and the Roger Ebert-scripted exploitation romp Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. It’s a riotously entertaining candy-coloured feminist fable that manages simultaneously to celebrate, satirise and deconstruct its happy-plastic subject. Audiences will be delighted. Mattel should be ecstatic.