Oppenheimer | Review Thread

[John Elden Ring]

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Oppenheimer

• Rotten Tomatoes 96% (49 Reviews)
• Metacritic: 97 (7 Reviews)

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Reviews:

The Hollywood Reporter:

his is a big, ballsy, serious-minded cinematic event of a type now virtually extinct from the studios. It fully embraces the contradictions of an intellectual giant who was also a deeply flawed man, his legacy complicated by his own ambivalence toward the breakthrough achievement that secured his place in the history books.

Variety:

“Oppenheimer” tacks on a trendy doomsday message about how the world was destroyed by nuclear weapons. But if Oppenheimer, in his way, made the bomb all about him, by that point it’s Nolan and his movie who are doing the same thing.

Deadline:

Oppenheimer is the most important motion picture of 2023, and maybe far beyond. Producers are Nolan, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven.

IndieWire (B):

But it’s no great feat to rekindle our fear over the most abominable weapon ever designed by mankind, nor does that seem to be Nolan’s ultimate intention. Like “The Prestige” or “Interstellar” before it, “Oppenheimer” is a movie about the curse of being an emotional creature in a mathematical world. The difference here isn’t just the unparalleled scale of this movie’s tragedy, but also the unfamiliar sensation that Nolan himself is no less human than his characters.

IGN (10/10):

A biopic in constant free fall, Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s most abstract yet most exacting work, with themes of guilt writ-large through apocalyptic IMAX nightmares that grow both more enormous and more intimate as time ticks on. 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.

Total Film (5/5):

Even as Oppenheimer grips in the moment, Nolan ensures the aftershocks of its story reverberate down the years, speaking loudly to today.

The Guardian (4/5)

Oppenheimer is poignantly lost in the kaleidoscopic mass of broken glimpses: the sacrificial hero-fetish of the American century.

Collider (A):

Oppenheimer is a towering achievement not just for Nolan, but for everyone involved. It is the kind of film that makes you appreciative of every aspect of filmmaking, blowing you away with how it all comes together in such a fitting fashion. Even though Nolan is honing in on talents that have brought him to where he is today, this film takes this to a whole new level of which we've never seen him before. With Oppenheimer, 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.

Empire (5/5):

But the film is never visually stronger than when it is inside Oppenheimer’s head, especially during its lengthy closing act, when apparitions of his creation’s life-snuffing effects bleed into his waking life with such nightmarish potency, they’ll be hard to shake for days.

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Synopsis:

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Cast:

• Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Emily Blunt as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer
• Matt Damon as Leslie Groves
• Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss
• Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock
• Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence
• Casey Affleck as Boris Pash
• Rami Malek as David Hill
• Kenneth Branagh as Niels Bohr

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Screenplay by: Christopher Nolan

Produced by: Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan

Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema

Edited by: Jennifer Lame

Music by: Ludwig Göransson

Running time: 180 minutes

 

[Bryank75]

Great stuff, well done to Cillian Murphy and everyone else. Nolan is probably my favorite director ever, The Prestige is just unbelievable and of course the Dark Knight trilogy.

Excited to see this!

 

[teezzy]

Will be seeing this about an hour from now

Excited. 3 hours is a long time, i should make sure i snag a water bottle or something