16 Films to See in July
July brings some of 2023's most-anticipated films, including a new Mission: Impossible installment and dueling potential blockbusters from Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan releasing on the same date. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting films debuting in North American theaters this month, listed in alphabetical order.
Additional content by Jason Dietz.
Drama | Directed by Christopher Nolan
Opens in theaters July 21
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After confusing audiences with the vibes-filled Tenet, writer-director Christopher Nolan returns to the history books (as he did for 2017’s Dunkirk), to explore the creation of the atomic bomb. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, Nolan’s first R-rated film since 2002’s Insomnia stars frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, the troubled physicist who led the Manhattan Project. Shot on IMAX by Hoyte Van Hoytema in both color and black and white (a first for these 65mm cameras), Nolan’s inquiry into the creation and consequences of the atomic age features Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director General Leslie Groves Jr., Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano as Robert Serber, and Josh Hartnett as American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. It could not be any more different than the film it is opening against, Barbie, though the latter is projected to win the box office battle.
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