Oppenheimer

Name: Oppenheimer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: July 21, 2023
Duration: 180 min
Rating: 90
Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Casey Affleck, Cillian Murphy, David Krumholtz, Emily Blunt

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 21, 2023 | R

Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Casey Affleck, Cillian Murphy, David Krumholtz, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Gary Oldman, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jack Quaid, James Remar, Jason Clarke, John Gowans, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Kurt Koehler, Matt Damon, Matthew Modine, Olivia Thirlby, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr., Scott Grimes, Tony Goldwyn

Summary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History

Rating: R

Runtime: 180 min

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David Rooney

Jul 19, 2023

This is a big, ballsy, serious-minded cinematic event of a type now virtually extinct from the studios. It fully embraces the contradictions of an intellectual giant who was also a deeply flawed man, his legacy complicated by his own ambivalence toward the breakthrough achievement that secured his place in the history books. Read full review

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Tim Grierson

Jul 19, 2023

Nolan demonstrates his usual prowess for impeccable visuals and stunning craftsmanship within a deeply despairing portrait of an arrogant genius who, too late, realised the impact of his monstrous creation. Read full review

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Peter Travers

Jul 21, 2023

Christopher 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. Read full review

Matt Wayt

Jul 24, 2023

The true test of 'Oppenheimer' is whether Nolan can maintain his typically mammoth vision with a narrative that mostly comprises white men talking in small rooms. Like his protagonist, the writer/director succeeds in a grand and unexpectedly horrifying fashion. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 19, 2023

In Oppenheimer, Nolan tells an epic story tacked onto an introspective, multi-faceted life, a hero in the Greek tragedy mold — brilliant and focused, but a man who knew his flaws and conflicted enough about his work that he all but accepted his fate as just deserts for all the “blood on my hands.” Read full review

Matt Singer

Jul 19, 2023

Those quibbles aside, Oppenheimer is intelligent non-IP-driven filmmaking on a scale we simply don’t see in movie theaters anymore — especially not in mid-July. Read full review

The Film Verdict Alonso Duralde

Jul 19, 2023

With all of its quick cuts and time-hopping, Oppenheimer behaves like a film that’s worried that it won’t have the space to fit everything it wants to say and do into three hours. Then it exhausts its welcome in the service of reiterating points. Then it delivers lectures in case you missed the earlier rounds. It knows how to blow up the world, but it doesn’t know when to quit. Read full review

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Yupitsbad

Jul 21, 2023

Oppenheimer actually delivers and delivers big time. I have been Nolan fan since 2006 Prestige and even tho, not everything he makes is perfect, this one hits the home run.

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Raynkman

Jul 25, 2023

Oppenheimer was a complicated person and this film remarkably shows that and i think this is the brilliance of Nolan.All actors are amazing be it Cillian or Blunt but it was Rdj who stole the show, what a perfomance by him he was menacing and ruthless.Ludwig is the next big thing his scoreOppenheimer was a complicated person and this film remarkably shows that and i think this is the brilliance of Nolan.All actors are amazing be it Cillian or Blunt but it was Rdj who stole the show, what a perfomance by him he was menacing and ruthless.Ludwig is the next big thing his score is beautiful and haunting.Hoyte is brilliant like always.… Expand

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Justgoodmovies

Aug 28, 2023

Great movie, but most importantly, it's not WOKE! So yeah, everyone feel free to enjoy this one, there's no forced WOKENESS.

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Gaufre

Jul 21, 2023

A masterpiece, absolutely stunning!

I consider this film one of the best I've ever seen, it's even more than a film, it's a real experience that I will never forget.

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royalguy07

Jul 22, 2023

A fulfilling and dramatic look into the lead up and the guilt involved in working on this project, the cast is all working at their best here, honestly too many to mention properly, a new one is lurking around every corner. Production and sound design is excellent in typical Nolan fashion. IA fulfilling and dramatic look into the lead up and the guilt involved in working on this project, the cast is all working at their best here, honestly too many to mention properly, a new one is lurking around every corner. Production and sound design is excellent in typical Nolan fashion. I just found myself a little detached and confused at a couple spots.… Expand

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43in2014

Jul 24, 2023

The short review: This film covers J Robert Oppenheimer's and Lewis Strauss's careers, using the former's 1954 hearing on the renewal of his nuclear security clearance and the latter's 1959 Senate confirmation hearing on his nomination as the Secretary of Commerce, to go into multipleThe short review: This film covers J Robert Oppenheimer's and Lewis Strauss's careers, using the former's 1954 hearing on the renewal of his nuclear security clearance and the latter's 1959 Senate confirmation hearing on his nomination as the Secretary of Commerce, to go into multiple flashbacks that covered the development of the A- and H-bombs, the communist witch-hunt and the latter's hate over the former. It is a good film with great acting, but it is hampered by Nolan-isms and excessive dialogue.
> Related media: I have not read the book this film is based on called American Prometheus.
> Negatives:
> 1. The Nolan-isms present in Tenet are back! The two hearings mentioned above, being five years apart, are not covered chronologically. Then there are multiple flashbacks that are also not shown chronologically. Labels on the year of the event shown would have helped, but no... there is not a single one! Some scenes are shown in black and white to indicate they are close recreations of actual events, while the coloured scenes are dramatisations of other events. Smart-ass Nolan could have easily made this clear!
> 2. While I understand that this is a drama, there is too much dialogue, particularly when this is 3 hrs long (including credits). While the dialogue is somewhat engaging, the dialogue can be cut down by some 30 min and some of this replaced with more interesting scenes. This will unfortunately raise the film's cost of $100m by a lot however.
> 3. I had expected more coverage of the Manhattan Project work and did not expect than coverage of dialogue-heavy hearings.
> Positives:
> 1. It is a rather engaging film (engagement reduced due to length of film), with great acting from many.
> 2. It is an amazing effort to make a epic film for only $100m nowadays, considering the long list of actors, many of whom are respectable.
> How would the different age groups rate this: > Children: Average (overly long, dialogue-heavy and hard to follow)
> Teens: Good > Young adults: Excellent > Medium-age adults: Excellent > Older adults: Excellent
> My rating: 4/5 (no half scores). Go watch it in the cinema (because it is good and everyone is discussing it now; if the movie had come out at other times, you should only need to catch it on TV.)… Expand

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kuehnau

Aug 2, 2023

Nothing but lies designed to glorifying a horrible part of our history. Never forget https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/

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