Oppenheimer
Chris Hormann

Review by Chris Hormann Patron

Oppenheimer

2023
★★★★½ Liked

Watched 25 Jul 2023

Well there's the Oscar for sound design all sewn up.

Nolan's biopic of Robert Oppenheimer, at least in the most interesting period of his life is less than perfect yet completely enthralling. The need to shoehorn in pieces of history an audience might immediately recognise (there's Albert Einstein, here's a mention of the junior senator from Massachusetts) over more character development is a bit much yet Nolan also slyly takes some well known actors, in tiny parts where you wonder why they took the role, before unleashing them in individual scenes (take a bow Emily Blunt) that strike deep. Of course Cillian Murphy is outstanding as Oppenheimer, his face able to convey profound emotion and thoughtfulness without any words.

Nolan has taken a conventional biopic but given it fresh twists so you get a sense of history, with some degree of bombast while showing us things that are entirely new.

My Barbenheimer set is complete and boy does it show that cinema can be crowdpleasing as well as intelligent.

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