‘Oppenheimer’ Is Being Called Nolan’s Most Impressive Film Yet
— Updated on 27 November 2023

‘Oppenheimer’ Is Being Called Nolan’s Most Impressive Film Yet

— Updated on 27 November 2023
Garry Lu
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Garry Lu

In line with the expectations of just about everyone, the first reactions to Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer are overwhelmingly positive.

The R-rated biopic starring Cillian Murphy as the Father of the Atomic Bomb — and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin — recently hit Paris for its world premiere event.

And despite its borderline laborious three-hour runtime, there’s been nary a complaint. Here’s what the critics have said so far…

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Cillian Murphy is joined onscreen by an all-star lineup featuring Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr as businessman/naval officer Lewis Strauss, Matt Damon as Lieutenant General and Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves, Florence Pugh as psychiatrist/physician Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie as physicist Edward Teller, Josh Hartnett as nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, and Tom Conti as Albert Einstein.

Rami Malek, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, Jason Clarke, plus David Krumholtz are also set to make an appearance.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is scheduled for release on July 21st of 2023 — the annual slot typically saved for Nolan’s flicks; roughly two weeks before the anniversary of Hiroshima — check out the latest trailer below.


There’s more where that came from: we watched and ranked every single Christopher Nolan movie. Check it out now.

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