Reviews for Oppenheimer are in and the epic biopic looks to be another critical hit for celebrated director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan.
The biopic non-linearly splits its attention across the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is played by Cillian Murphy. The film centers, of course, the development and testing of his horrific creation: the atomic bomb. Flashbacks and flash-forwards explore his education and a 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing on Oppenheimer’s involvement with the US Communist party. The movie uses the first black-and-white footage ever to be shot on IMAX cameras.
Oppenheimer is directed and written by Christopher Nolan and is based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. It stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Benny Safdie, and Kenneth Branagh.