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Oppenheimer

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Oppenheimer

2023

Christopher Nolan

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon ...

7.4

39,231

Drama. Thriller In wartime, the brilliant American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, at the head of the 'Manhattan Project', leads nuclear tests to build the atomic bomb for his country. Shocked by its destructive power, Oppenheimer questions the moral consequences of his creation. From then on and for the rest of his life, he would strongly oppose the use of nuclear weapons.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Nolan’s atom bomb epic is flawed but extraordinary (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Oppenheimer is a gorgeously photographed, brilliantly acted, masterfully edited and thoroughly engrossing epic that instantly takes its place among the finest films of this decade (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A brainy, brawny thriller (...) the most surprising element of this audacious epic is that the scramble for atomic armament ends up secondary to the scathing depiction of political gamesmanship"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A supersized masterpiece"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"See it in IMAX on 70-millimeter film — you’ll be very glad you did (...) “Oppenheimer” is a movie that makes you say “Oh, my God” over and over again — in awe and in terror. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dylan Roth The New York Observer	"A bio-pic, a mystery, a polemic, and also excellent (...) This feels like the movie Christopher Nolan has been preparing to make for his entire 25-year career (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Nolan’s Starry Biopic Is Big, Loud, and a Must-See (...) a movie that brings to mind the difficult era-spanning epics of yesteryear (...) a movie made by adults for adults yet done with the sweep and majesty we now associate with movies made for kids and teens."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"As brilliant and short-sighted as its subject (...) 'Oppenheimer' feels like the movie that Christopher Nolan has been working toward his entire life, which only makes its shortcomings all the more frustrating"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Cillian Murphy gives a phenomenal performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb, in a film that's ruthlessly authentic and, for much of its three hours, gripping."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Christopher Nolan delivers his most spectacular, cerebral blockbuster yet – headlined by a career-best Cillian Murphy (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"A disturbing, mesmerizing vision of what humanity is capable of bringing upon itself, both through its innovation, and through its capacity to justify any atrocity."	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"Elevated by Cillian Murphy’s exacting performance, Nolan’s biopic on the father of the atomic bomb is majestic and morally complex"	POS
United Kingdom	Jeremy Aspinall Radio Times	"Cillian Murphy is stunning in explosive epic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kristy Puchko Mashable	"Ambitious, deeply Nolan, deeply flawed (...) Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh are striking, but is that enough?"	NEU
Canada	Ben Wasserman CBR	"[It] delivers thanks to its impeccable performances, direction, and haunting spectacle"	POS
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"In a way, Oppenheimer is like atomic physics: Each tiny spark interlocks to create a massive, breathtaking, terrifying, conflagration (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine	"Nolan’s Oppenheimer isn’t so much a great-man biopic as a great-man-but-maybe-not biopic, and at times, the director seems hell-bent on channeling the instinctive, ethereal ambivalence of a Terrence Malick trip"	POS
United States	Matthew Jackson AV Club	"Oppenheimer deserves the title of masterpiece. It’s Christopher Nolan’s best film so far, a step up to a new level for one of our finest filmmakers, and a movie that burns itself into your brain."	POS
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"Nolan is more mature as a filmmaker than ever before, and it feels like we may just now be beginning to see what incredible work he's truly capable of making"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"[It] is an ambitious film about an ambitious project. Nolan blows up the traditional biopic and rebuilds it in thrilling, dynamic fashion"	POS
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"One of the best movies of the year (...) In what might be his magnum opus, Nolan has meticulously crafted a biopic that feels like a thriller"	POS
United Kingdom	Caryn James BBC	"Oppenheimer is Nolan's most mature work, combining the explosive, commercially-enticing action of 'The Dark Knight' trilogy with the cerebral underpinnings that go back more than 20 years to 'Memento' (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"As a physical experience, 'Oppenheimer' is something else entirely —it's hard to say exactly what, and that's what's so fascinating about it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"While it doesn't hit the same emotional notes as Nolan's inspired 'Interstellar', the film succeeds as both character study and searing cautionary tale about taking science too far. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Oppenheimer has the temerity to be a drama of ideas staged on a massive scale, at a time when such things are out of vogue. Maybe Oppenheimer will be the force that finally sets off a chain reaction in Hollywood"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Cillian Murphy dazzles as the destroyer of worlds. (...) It’s at once a speeding roller-coaster and a skin-tingling spiritual portrait; an often classically minded period piece that only Nolan could have made, and only now, after a quarter-century’s run-up. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"Christopher Nolan majestically turns the Manhattan project into american myth (...) 'Oppenheimer' lands with nothing short of the mighty impact suggested by its legendary stature."	POS
Australia	Stephen Romei The Australian	"Christopher Nolan has done it again. He's taken a historical story we know a bit about and turned it into an edge-of-the-seat, heart-in-the-mouth drama (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Mullins-Khatib Chicago Reader	"Jarring and memorable, an ode to creation and consequence"	POS
	Elena Lazic Cineuropa	"[It] falls into many of the pitfalls of the biopic format"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'Oppenheimer' is both an unerringly focused character study and, somehow, one of the year’s most sprawling ensemble pieces (...) Extraordinarily gripping and resonant movie"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The movies have played around with global destruction for fun once too often; it's about time we took it seriously again (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"Layered, nuanced character study led by a brilliant Cillian Murphy"	POS
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"[It] as frightening as it is brilliant"	POS
United States	Oli Welsh Polygon	"Christopher Nolan at his most complex, powerful, and human (...) This is the film in which Nolan ponders the scary proposition that the most powerful force in the universe might be us."	POS
United Kingdom	Paul Bradshaw NME	"This tense and talk-y thriller ranks among the director's greatest films (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Eric Walkuski JoBlo	"What Oppenheimer set in motion can’t be undone, and if we’re not careful, wise, or lucky, this could all end in the blink of an eye. In that regard, it’s not just a really good film, it’s a pretty important one too"	POS

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