Oppenheimer is primarily a look at its main character’s life. But at its core is the danger that not just him, but humanity in general, are ill equipped to handle the godlike power of atomic weaponry.

| Dec 8, 2024

Led by Cillian Murphy, the film with standout performances from Robert Downey Jr, Matt Damon and more, was a visual spectacle that one couldn’t look away from. The reactions to the moment the bomb explodes onscreen can only be described as dramatic.

| Sep 20, 2024

Cillian Murphy is the powerful magnetic centre of the film, the prized uranium at its core.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Oppenheimer is a stunning masterpiece that keeps its audience engaged for the entirety of its seemingly daunting runtime, despite its heavy subject matter.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 15, 2024

It’s a film that, through the filter of history, dazzles with its mastery of craft, directly challenging us on how the lust for power can, and perhaps will, one day destroy us all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

What might be surprising is that dropping the bomb is not that moment in history, Nolan is more interested in how one misinterpretation of a conversation can have long lasting effects.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Oppenhiemer is a return to form for Nolan after the fiasco of Tenet. There's a great movie hiding amidst all of the formal pyrotechnics. But I guess it's too much to ask for a lighter touch from a director who is about as subtle as an atomic bomb.

| May 21, 2024

Oppenheimer is ultimately a cautionary tale about ego, politics, and power, a true, modern epic.

| Apr 19, 2024

As increasing tensions with Russia rise once again, it seems fitting that "Oppenheimer" sets forth the events that led to those initial tensions in aftermath of World War II.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2024

It's the bomb.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2024

What promises to be Christopher Nolan's first cinematic masterpiece, evaporates before our eyes.

| Original Score: TWO STARS | Mar 24, 2024

For a film so enmeshed in ideas and loaded with meeting and conversations and debates (scientific and moral), it is as visually compelling as it is narratively.

| Mar 8, 2024

Downey’s performance is one of subtlety and guile, right up to the last twist. I have never seen an actor so thoroughly redeemed by taking a hard, thankless role like this.

| Mar 8, 2024

Christopher Nolan’s latest is also his best-ever film. Fully at the height of his large-format artistic powers, he crafts a towering and monumental achievement that is highly difficult to watch but continuously thrilling.

| Mar 5, 2024

Unlike many epics, Oppenheimer is an actor’s dream.

| Feb 29, 2024

Pugh is heartbreaking, but doesn't get to shine as much as Emily Blunt (as Oppenheimer's wife Kitty). Long-suffering thanks to her husband's obsessive career and dalliances, Blunt nonetheless provides needed steel for Bob in the final scenes.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 25, 2024

I liked it, but thought the third act nearly cratered the whole thing.

| Jan 3, 2024

Nolan is a master of adding tension where there is very little, while deflating strenuous moments and creating an environment that is almost unbearable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2024

The film’s narrative, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, encompasses an effective blend of historical documentary with dramatic thriller and biography.

| Original Score: A | Jan 1, 2024

A violent reckoning with America’s bloodlust, filtered through a man whose ego and naïveté facilitated one of the most unspeakable monstrosities in the history of the world; an unprecedented devastation that still reverberates through civilizations today.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2024