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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzIt’s powerful, a technically dazzling achievement; so audacious is Nolan’s filmmaking that if it didn’t serve the story you’d think at times he was just showing off. He’s not. |
| IGNSiddhant AdlakhaA full-tilt biopic unlike any before it, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is as stunning as it is terrifying. |
| EmpireDan JolinA masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level. A film that you don’t merely watch, but must reckon with. |
| Total FilmKevin HarleyTaut and sprawling, riveting and haunting: firing on all cylinders, Nolan tackles world-changing history with fearsome force and focus. |
| ColliderRoss BonaimeOppenheimer is a towering achievement not just for Nolan, but for everyone involved. It is the kind of film that makes you appreciative of every aspect of filmmaking, blowing you away with how it all comes together in such a fitting fashion. |
| The AtlanticDavid SimsNolan is best known for spectacle, and some viewers will be able to see Oppenheimer in bone-rattling IMAX, projected on a skyscraper-size screen. But it’s more impressive for how the director has made such a personal narrative feel epic, not just in visual breadth but in dramatic sweep, presenting a story from the past that feels knotted to so many present anxieties about nuclear annihilation. |
| Time OutPhil de SemlyenThe cumulative effect is so stunning and antithetical to anything Hollywood is doing at the moment – the equally audacious Barbie aside – that it feels like a completely different art form. And, frankly, hallelujah for that. |
| VoxAlissa WilkinsonNolan’s Oppenheimer barely qualifies as a biopic, at least not the thudding Hollywood variety. Instead it’s a movie — a masterful one, among his best — investigating the nature of power: how it is created, how it is kept in balance, and how it leads people into murky quandaries that refuse simplistic answers. |
| ABC NewsPeter TraversChristopher Nolan deserves every superlative for his brilliant take on J. Robert Oppenheimer (a flawless Cillian Murphy), the dark knight of the atomic age. This terrifying, transfixing three-hour epic emerges as a monumental achievement on the march into screen history. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOnce it clicks – and it will – the film burns hard, fast and blindingly bright. |
