World star hip hop freaks review9/6/2023 Indeed in another interation Nolan could have turned this into a play, but this is a movie, and if there is a lot of “talking”, well he has invested in it such a signature cinematic and breathtaking sense of visual imagery that you just may be on the edge of your seat the entire time. I have heard it described by one person as a lot of scenes with men sitting around talking. When Nolan is on, he is on.įrom a man who has taken us into places movies rarely go with films like Interstellar, Inception, Tenet, Memento, the Dark Knight Trilogy, and a very different but equally effective look at World War II in Dunkirk, I think it would be fair to say Oppenheimer could be Christopher Nolan’s most impressive achievement to date. The good stuff first: There are a handful of sequences that remind you why this 52-year-old director is considered a godhead by film geeks, genre freaks, and armchair arthouse-cinema scholars alike. Oppenheimer is most assuredly a Christopher Nolan film, complete with the blessings and the curses of what that phrase entails. So let us now praise movies about famous men, and the famous men who make them. Paced like it was designed for interstellar travel, scripted with a degree of density that scientists once thought purely theoretical in nature, and shot with such large-format bombast that repetitive scenes (or at least Nolan-esque slices) of old politicians yelling at each other about expired security clearances hit with the same visceral impact as the 747 explosion in “Tenet,” “Oppenheimer” is nothing if not a biopic as only Christopher Nolan could make one. You feel that in the heady, dense, dizzying way it slices and dices chronology, psychodrama, scientific inquiry, political backstabbing, and history written with lightning - no mere metaphor in this case, since the movie, which tells the story of the man who created the atomic bomb, feels almost like it’s about the invention of lightning. Which, in a movie that depends heavily on very complicated science, serves as a somewhat effective way to handle exposition about how splitting atoms can be used to create atomic bombs. A character testifying will set up a scene, then we will flashback for that scene. Sometimes in color, sometimes in black and white (ahem, JFK). A character will be recounting his or her story and we will see brief flashbacks. A big reason is this is a movie that doesn’t stay on one scene very long. You can see excerpts from the first batch of reviews below:įor a literal three-hour movie, Oppenheimer moves pretty well. Along the way, an all-star cast buoys this cautionary tale, and the critics are here for it. In true Nolan style, Oppenheimer grapples with the destructive power released on the world as it follows the title character’s journey from scientific discovery to untold horrors. Robert Oppenheimer ( Cillian Murphy) created the devastating force known as the atomic bomb. Despite clocking in with a massive three hour runtime, Nolan expertly uses every second of film to tell a gripping tale about how brilliant physicist J. The first reviews for Oppenheimer are beginning to drop, and so far, the new Christopher Nolan film seems to be racking up almost unanimous praise from critics.
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