Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer 2023

★★★★½

Watched Jul 20, 2023

9/10. Christopher Nolan proves once again that he is one of the most prolific filmmakers of our time. This biographical drama is brilliantly crafted, epic in scope, and has powerful storytelling anchored with a very well-rounded cast. The way he crafts this film on a terrifying subject is beautiful and intense.
The sound design is hard hitting and awesomely loud. Yes, you can hear most of dialogue and doesn’t get drowned out like it did in “Tenet”. Ludwig Goransson creates a haunting soundtrack to help the film feel alive and horrifying.


Cillian Murphy is mesmerizing in his powerhouse performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer. His acting is very expressive with his facial expressions and mannerisms. Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, and especially Robert Downey Jr. are all standouts as well. Hoyte van Hoytema cinematography is a wonderful sight to behold. They shot this with Imax cameras on real film as opposed to the overused digital format. Nolan wants you to experience this in the theater the way it’s meant to be. Kodak also invented the first ever black and white Imax film for this movie.


It’s not a completely perfect film. It does run for about three hours long, but it’s well earned. It’s a slow burn, densely filled drama that will turn off some of the mainstream movie goers. Some of the other big-name stars have a limited amount of screentime. Hopefully, this will be one of the front runners for the Oscars. Nolan painted a wonderful picture about the birth of nuclear warfare, atomic bombs, fear, death, and the possibility of destroying the earth.
So now it’s time to give Nolan his long, overdue Oscar for directing. How he wasn’t even nominated for “The Dark Knight” and “Inception” is baffling.

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