Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan tells the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

The film co-stars Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer's wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer; Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project; Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock; and Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller. Michael Angarano also stars alongside Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh.

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Oppenheimer | Ratings & Reviews

93 % 513 reviews Rotten Tomatoes® rating 4.2/5 4,072,594 reviews Letterboxd rating 91 % 15,574 reviews Audience score rating

"Both singularly propulsive and frustratingly obtuse."

"A triumph, like witnessing history itself being split open."

— The Telegraph

"Flawed but extraordinary."

— The Guardian

"A big, ballsy, serious-minded cinematic event of a type now virtually extinct from the studios."

— Hollywood Reporter — Chicago Sun-Times

"Clever, imaginative and Christopher Nolan at his best."

— Independent

"Both thrilling and wonky, brilliant and overstuffed, too much and not enough."

— Rolling Stone — Los Angeles Times

"(Murphy) gives a phenomenal performance. "

"Willfully and startlingly dispenses with the plodding routines of the average biopic."

— Slant Magazine

"A kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty. "

— Associated Press

"A juggernaut historical biopic that you'll want to see again asap, even if it doesn’t all work on the first sweep."

— Little White Lies

"Deeply flawed but brilliant."

— The Irish Times — Houston Chronicle

"A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level."

— Empire Magazine

"Cillian Murphy turns in a haunting career-best performance. and Robert Downey Jr. astounds in a way we haven’t seen in quite some time."

"A film of magnitude, profundity and dazzling artistry."

— The Washington Post

"Christopher Nolan’s staggering film. condenses a titanic shift in consciousness into three haunted hours."

— The New York Times

"Boldly imaginative and (Nolan's) most mature work yet. "

"Often laborious yet genuinely strange and gripping. "

"This is a film about terrible risks and a planet likely destined to destroy itself someday. And we see it, and feel it."

— Chicago Tribune

"(Nolan has) taken a historical story we know a bit about and turned it into an edge-of-the-seat, heart-in-the-mouth drama."

— The Australian

"Rarely have the highs and lows of politics been so astoundingly charted."

— Austin Chronicle

"Nolan’s film sags under the weight of this complicated exposition."

— Vanity Fair

Oppenheimer | Details

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Award winner Best Picture, Director, Actor (Cillian Murphy), Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Score, Oscars 2024; Best Film, Director, Actor (Cillian Murphy), Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Score, BAFTAs 2024; Winner for Best Film – Drama; Best Director, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), and Best Original Score at the Golden Globes 2024.

Rating M, Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide Runtime 180 Genre Drama, True Story & Biography Country of origin USA Atlas Entertainment

Oppenheimer | Opinion

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