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

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

That the director turned this most devastating of stories into a riveting pop culture phenomenon without ceding one inch on its tragic dimensions is surely an achievement for the ages.

| Dec 9, 2023

What he [Nolan] has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

This is a complex look at a complicated man, but Oppenheimer unequivocally establishes that this is a story worth telling -- and that Nolan was the perfect filmmaker to do it.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 3, 2023

Every scene feels like a cataclysm waiting to happen, fitting for a film that builds, step-by-step, to the creation of a cataclysm machine. Oppenheimer both summons awe for what it took to build the bomb and for the changes it wrought.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 3, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s newest film is jarring and memorable, an ode to creation and consequence.

| Jul 29, 2023

After spending a decade-plus confined to the Iron Man suit and the Marvel playground, the man behind Lewis Strauss reminded everyone what he's capable of: a nervy performance full of pettiness, desperation, and force.

| Jul 29, 2023

Befitting his paradigm-shattering protagonist, Nolan so audaciously merges form and content that he completely upends the ‘great-man’ biopic.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 28, 2023

Starring Cillian Murphy, and his cheekbones, the film is dense, ambitious, complex, so very long (three hours) and impressive, even if it does drag by the end.

| Jul 27, 2023

Thanks to Nolan and Murphy, we see the full Oppenheimer -- neither monster nor savior, victim nor villain, but in the end, just a man.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2023

This is a very heady, brainy spectacle. A thesis. A portrait of a genius, his triumphs and shame.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 26, 2023

The movie is as sluggish as if Nolan were underlining the script’s most salient passages onscreen...

| Jul 26, 2023

This is a film with intelligence, purpose and historic value.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2023

It’s a movie like no other, dragging us into the collective guilt of history.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 24, 2023

For the most part, the film is a towering achievement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2023

... scientific and historical accuracy are key. Fortunately for fans of both, "Oppenheimer" delivers in telling the truth about the story of the Manhattan Project, at least as much as can be expected of a Hollywood blockbuster.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2023

Nolan’s Oppenheimer barely qualifies as a biopic... Instead it’s a movie 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.

| Jul 21, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster captures the scientific triumphs and monstrous sins of the Manhattan Project.

| Jul 21, 2023

Not since The Master, perhaps, has a filmmaker used the large gauge to such intimate effect, making a vast canvas from one man’s troubled features.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

Nolan discards the dates and details of traditional biopic storytelling, which is a frustrating if evocative choice. He thrusts us headlong and simultaneously into the advent and fallout of the nuclear arms race with [a] nagging insistence

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2023