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I’m unconvinced the naturalistic cinematography was the right call — it makes the script’s fizzy hijinks come off a tad too mumblecore — but there’s a fantastic sequence of Carey getting buddy-buddy with Ashley’s lovers and a brawl that goes much further than you expect.

This is unsurprising given that the movie is directed by indie darling Greta Gerwig, who achieved early fame in the mumblecore movement, acting in very small, self-conscious films about relationships between offbeat people.

“Barbie” director and onetime mumblecore hero Greta Gerwig and that movie’s star, Margot Robbie, responded in kind by also posting photos of themselves holding tickets to both “Mission: Impossible” and “Oppenheimer” in front of each film’s respective poster.

Maybe part of the reason that I didn't work a lot in my 20s is mumblecore was king and being cool and having low stakes and minimalism – and I've never been good at that.

“The mumblecore wave had crested, and a lot of those self-made, indie techniques were being applied to TV for the first time. And we were right at the beginning of that. There was this promise that you could make really good TV on an indie budget, and without the kind of glitz and glam.”