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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023
Drama, History
3h 0m
'The Oppenheimer Project' delves into the untold story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in creating the atomic bomb. Meticulously crafted, the film explores the ethical dilemmas faced by Oppenheimer and his team during WWII.

Directed by:

Christopher Nolan

Screenwriter:

Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin

Starring:

Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Casey Affleck, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Jason Clarke, Tom Conti, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh

Genres:

Drama, History, Biography

Countries:

UK, USA

Language:

English
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2023
Drama, History
3h 0m
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fredericg54frederic_g54
Rated 20 Jul 2023
5
20th
What a waste of celluloid. When your 3-hour dialogue-heavy film gets drowned nearly every second by its music score, that’s a sign you were anything but confident about your story and characters to begin with. I wouldn’t have been bothered by this if Nolan had an Aaron Sorkin-esque talent for writing dialogue, but we all know that’s not the case. My score also directly reflects my annoyance vis-à-vis Nolan’s arrogance and self-indulgence for using miles of IMAX film just to film people talking.
Rated 20 Jul 2023
rurusmasherRuruSmasher
Rated 21 Jul 2023
67
15th
Barely made it through it, it felt painfully American. The best I can say about it is that it's well made and has good performances. There are a few interesting scenes, but do not justify the 3h runtime. I couldn't find anything insightful or fresh observed about the millionth tortured controversial male genius story. Every Japanese Gojira has more to say about Hiroshima. Twin Peaks The Return Part 8 is 1.000x better than this at talking about this topic.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
leonardisLeonardis
Rated 22 Jul 2023
96
89th
A phenomenal film. I also heard what the actors were saying. I have no idea where so many others were coming from. A gargantuan biopic, and an epic one. I’ve not seen one of this scale in terms of cast and production. Great tension, fascinating drama and a protagonist that I even felt for at times. Murphy and Downey are amazing, but everyone else is great too. It did feel as long as it is at times, but I was throughly fascinated and very moved in the end. Harrowing, relevant filmmaking.
Rated 22 Jul 2023
moribunnyMoribunny
Rated 29 Jul 2023
35
20th
A half-decent director could have made something utterly fascinating out of this piece of history. Nolan, on the other hand, creates essentially a 3-hour trailer, made of seconds-long scenes with only the tackiest, most manufactured lines imaginable. The cast is an unending torrent of great actors, and you can tell that the credited biographers wrote something complex and navigated potential pitfalls; only to be supplanted by Nolan's forced ridiculousness.
Rated 29 Jul 2023
sellissellis
Rated 24 Jul 2023
66
29th
Disinterested in crafting an immersing experience with pace, Nolan opts to deliver a cliff notes summation of events, names, and political affiliations in order to fit a theatrical runtime. Make this 5 hours long, broken into episodes, you could have something really interesting. Here, you have flashes of There Will Be Blood, but mostly Social Network without Sorkin’s dialogue flourishes. Also, nude scenes so unnecessary it makes me wonder if it’s directed by a 12 year old.
Rated 24 Jul 2023
mirelurkMirelurk
Rated 23 Jul 2023
84
88th
This is what Nolan is best suited to. His self-seriousness often comes off as insufferable pretension in some of his fictional projects but here the stakes are the fate of our world so this kind of spectacle filmmaking is exactly what you want from this story. Interesting angles are covered which I wouldn't have expected coming in. Visual fx are perfect to get into the troubled mind of Oppenheimer. Performances are top tier all round, some weird Nolany dialogue moments tho. Much to discus...
Rated 23 Jul 2023
jlfmJLFM
Rated 21 Jul 2023
87
93rd
Cillian Murphy’s hair in this film has a stronger narrative arc than some entire movies I’ve seen this year. This is very much Christopher Nolan’s The Wind Rises; an impassioned and devastating struggle with creation and its consumption by the hungry, foolish masses.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
juntakinte99juntakinte99
Rated 21 Jul 2023
66
30th
The best moments have it try to be this generation's JFK: a spanning epic about recent American conflict full of movie stars. And the portions involving Los Alamos and the creation of the bomb are riveting. But the opening and ending sections drag on for far too long. And it shows a few weaknesses of Nolan: namely that he shouldn't write political dialogue or film a sex scene. Still, it's loud, has one interesting philosophical argument, and could serve as a cool snapshot of history.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 20 Jul 2023
90
91st
Not since Come And See did close-ups on a face haunt me. Nolan's bonkers casting choices are not a new thing (look at Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, dude cast an attractive star with a smoulder that could melt the coldest hearts and altered his onscreen legacy forever with the Joker), but he got the best acting out of David Krumholtz and Benny Safdie yet, and even got something subdued out of Josh Peck.
Rated 20 Jul 2023
sybaritesybarite
Rated 30 Jul 2023
10
4th
Revolting. The mess made of the narrative robs the movie of any meaningful drama. What little engagement I felt was a result of the shitty, incessant action-movie score and the actors' strident delivery. It beggars belief, that a film about the development of the atom bomb could afford not one second to the reality of what happened in Japan. Instead, we get an hour on Oppenheimer's security clearance. What is this movie, but the logic of the bio-pic, taken to its fascist, egomaniacal end?
Rated 30 Jul 2023
djrossdjross
Rated 25 Jul 2023
55
53rd
Follows the Nolan prescription: generating affect by using a slowly-moving camera, frequent cuts, ominous score, having actors underplay. Problems develop between being a persecution story and a self-persecution story, and the increasing focus on Strauss starts to seem a bit ludicrous. The whole thing drags out just in order to say…what? The filmmakers seem unsure: letting the audience decide is fine, but it feels like a cross between a school textbook and an exercise in fancy movie mechanics. [Full review]
Rated 25 Jul 2023
redflagredflag
Rated 23 Jul 2023
68
9th
As a self-contained work, it's excellent, an exploration of mid-century modernity. The cinematography, nuanced narrative, historical detail, acting, direction, etc. It lacks in editing and could have played up the significance of Communism. However, the failure to *SHOW* the hundreds of thousands killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no matter how masterfully critiqued otherwise by the film, is IMO a whitewashing of history and an apology for crimes against humanity. The world can never forget.
Rated 23 Jul 2023
ofterdingenOfterdingen
Rated 23 Jul 2023
65
66th
A strangely underwhelming film that can’t decide on McCarthyism or ethics concerning the atom bomb. Maybe it was possible to combine both but the emphasis on Robert Downey Jr.’s character is off and seems less important compared to everything else going on. Also way too long and Emily Blunt doesn’t work in an albeit underwritten part. Still solid craftmanship.
Rated 23 Jul 2023
nobambanobamba
Rated 21 Jul 2023
80
88th
(Rewatch: needed more Pugh and Blunt) I don't agree with the complaints about the sound levels. Film is an art and the use of music or silence to drown out speech is a deliberate choice to peek into Oppenheimer's psyche. I wish we had better developed characters/bonding. I'd have liked the final act more if I hadn't assumed the movie would end with the (underwhelming) Trinity Test. Fav scenes: Matt Damon; stepping on charred corpse; not showing Hiroshima slides.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
paxtonPaxton
Rated 06 Aug 2024
83
80th
The build up to the bomb was masterfully done but much like sex after the explosion there’s a lull in the proceedings and I’m left with nothing but images of Cillian Murphy’s strained expression. wait
Rated 06 Aug 2024
corbadCorbad
Rated 16 Aug 2023
10
0th
Fundamentally flawed. Even those who love this leave feeling sick, but that's all this film has: callous disregard and purposeful ignorance. It's purposeless - and also, it's boring! Because it turns away from the actual victims to make you feel all torn up about poor baby Bob, it has no stakes. He'll lose his clearance? He'll lose the reputation he occasionally uses to whisper "Uh don't make bigger bombs pls" before cowering behind his guilt in silence? I don't give a fuck! What an awful movie.
Rated 16 Aug 2023
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 12 Aug 2023
55
49th
Dull, poorly structured and visually underwhelming. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a Nolanhyper.
Rated 12 Aug 2023
kasperlKasperL
Rated 30 Jul 2023
80
86th
Murphy's towering performance makes the film. Letting Downey Jr. and the conventional political witch hunt angle share the spotlight instead of delving more into ethical dilemmas is a mistake but the editing somehow render that acceptable. As some brilliant moments (Oppenheimer being applauded and the ending) make abundantly clear, though, focusing exclusively on the considerable emotional fallout for Oppenheimer would've made for a devastating drama rather than a mildly gripping history lesson.
Rated 30 Jul 2023
luordluord
Rated 21 Jul 2023
63
51st
Expected it to be more about the Manhattan Project than about sophomoric 'commentary' on the red scare, even if Nolan forgot about subtlety after "The Prestige". Still, it has so much talent onscreen (except surprisingly for Downey, who was either phoning it in or hamming it out with no in-between) that I can't hate it.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
imnotlaughinimnotlaughin
Rated 05 Sep 2023
80
89th
By many metrics, this film was great, but I'm getting tired of Nolan's style. Films need variations in intensity just like paintings need variations in contrast. The ability to produce vibrating levels of anxiety for more than three hours straight is an impressive technical feat, but Nolan needs to learn another trick. That one is both hard to watch and getting old.
Rated 05 Sep 2023
peaches12345Peaches12345
Rated 28 Jul 2023
51
25th
Disappointing. Great cast selection, but the structure of the story is frustrating. Constantly switching from the "present" to the "past". Characters being thrown around and about without ever getting to know them and why they matter. Mumbled important dialogue making me wish the movie theater had subtitles. Scenes cut short by an assault of obnoxious visuals and sounds. The Trinity Test was underwhelming. I didn't want anything over the top or crazy, but it looked like an oversized gas fire.
Rated 28 Jul 2023
bofbof
Rated 24 Jul 2023
73
66th
Nolan has adapted a non-fiction book and it shows. Oppenheimer is an audiovisual marvel, with some fantastic setpieces, weighted down with a script that comes with 50 pages of footnotes but no clear narrative core. I had an easier time telling the Kens apart than the 137 different physicists and politicians here. For a movie 3 hours long, it spends remarkably long just telling us stuff that's happened offscreen; for a movie talking about Prometheus, remarkably little time talking about effects.
Rated 24 Jul 2023
hawkinsHawkins
Rated 23 Aug 2023
63
32nd
Does classic pop science/history bits like furious blackboard scribbling, 'can you explain that in english?' guy, hamfist Einstein cameo - oh, and that junior senator's name? John F. Kennedy. Forrest Gump was there too! The story begs the question of why it spends so much time on Strauss only to tell us that he isn't that important after all. What's he in half the movie for then, is he stupid? Newfound insignificance in the atomic age? As per Nolan, cross-cutting obfuscates a first watch.
Rated 23 Aug 2023
howler19howler19
Rated 02 Aug 2023
34
27th
I simply do not understand how you can see this man, the atomic bomb he is associated with, and all the devastating implications it had on the world, only to decide to waste most of the movie on some incredibly uninteresting interrogation. One of the biggest disappointments I've had at the theater considering my expectations.
Rated 02 Aug 2023
thegreyfoxthegreyfox
Rated 01 Aug 2023
55
25th
Watching a Nolan film reminds me of the gold rush; you spend hours panning through the detritus of loud unnecessary sound and light effects, portentious music, corridor walking, multiple time lines and annoying flash editing just to try to sift out the nugget of a decent story. Good acting and a gripping build up to the bomb test doesn't overcome the feeling you are left with (apart from the ringing ears) that it all could have been so much better without all the gimmicky cinematic silliness.
Rated 01 Aug 2023
movie_houseMovie House
Rated 27 Jul 2023
60
29th
I was so bored watching this bloated mess. The structure sucks with the film jumping all over the place. It is sometimes hard trying to figure out what year we are in (the Senate stuff is in black and white with the rest being in color. Of course, the black and white stuff is easy to know what year we are in but not so with the color footage. Also, the bomb test explosion was underwhelming. I actually liked the last hour of the film more than the two hours that preceded it.
Rated 27 Jul 2023
nargNarg
Rated 27 Jul 2023
77
80th
It's terrifying to watch human beings, mortals, literally build Armageddon; and never before has thunderous applause sounded so much like the end of the world. Nolan is a limited filmmaker, one who has leveraged his considerable skill into several great films, but one who can't grasp through this medium the full breadth of human experience. That means this film has to fundamentally be about folly, about Oppenheimer barely understanding himself more than the people watching him on screen.
Rated 27 Jul 2023
bencgauldbencgauld
Rated 25 Jul 2023
88
80th
A sprawling epic that treats the development of nuclear weapons and the character of Oppenheimer with the nuance it deserves. Seeing Murphy's portrayal of a man who smashed Pandora's Box open with a crowbar was appropriately haunting. Gary Oldman as Truman cameo was incredible as well. The 1st act was a little uneven and suffered from some overly cinematic dialogue but the 3rd act sticks the landing. More villain roles for Downey Jr. please
Rated 25 Jul 2023
tenfoldtenfold
Rated 24 Jul 2023
20
13th
Overly long, overly dramatized -- especially the later parts. Lots of decent visuals/acting before that. Too corny.
Rated 24 Jul 2023
theescapistTheEscapist
Rated 21 Jul 2023
75
77th
Quite magnificent and worth experiencing in cinemas. It does suffer from typical Nolan annoyances (fairly bland female characters, archetypical characters, not the greatest writing or dialogue and convoluted plotting), but it also features Nolan's strengths (such as magnificent visuals, mostly immersive sounds and interesting subject material). All in all worth experiencing and better than I had expected. A not too typical Hollywood biopic, which is nice to see.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
cowmanCowman
Rated 25 Dec 2023
65
40th
I don't feel the need for this to be over 2 hours long...Courtroom drama could have been skipped. Focussing only on the Manhattan project and the actual bomb would have been an excellent movie. Also give the other geniuses some more screentime maybe? Oppie didn't do this alone. Score is unbearably melodramatic.
Rated 25 Dec 2023
twincinematwincinema
Rated 24 Dec 2023
80
75th
Watched this as Christopher Nolan intended -- in my home, split into two separate viewings, with a few breaks in-between. There's a scene where Oppenheimer sounds exactly like Robin Williams that I had to rewind a few times to make sure. I think this film is fairly pro-Oppenheimer, but it does offer enough space to let the viewer reflect whether this sentiment is correct. When (name redacted) launches an attack on his character at the end of the film, it is not entirely baseless.
Rated 24 Dec 2023
obdurateObdurate
Rated 09 Nov 2023
85
81st
Best Nolan movie in a while. A massive cast where everybody, even the bit parts, give their all. Murphy was quite good here and I always love Blunt. He shows why he's a great director, using shots and ideas that a lesser director wouldn't even think of. His creative choices haven't always worked, specifically with dialogue, but I didn't find it egregious here. But what impressed me the most was how 3 hours flew by. It really came across like a thriller, even though it's just talking.
Rated 09 Nov 2023
koalafishKoalafish
Rated 29 Aug 2023
75
83rd
Casting and acting are near perfect, but the way it's shot it felt like an overlong trailer. The constant soundtrack, hard to understand dialogue, fast cuts and time jumps over the three hour running time was a bit too exhausting for me.
Rated 29 Aug 2023
nikiforosnikiforos
Rated 21 Aug 2023
10
3rd
go fuck yourself Nolan
Rated 21 Aug 2023
comepeliculacomepelicula
Rated 11 Aug 2023
20
4th
I had such high hopes, a history of a scientist leading in an incredible project with worldwide consequences and huge personal moral issues done by Nolan who did Interestellar. The project, the scientist or the human angle are fascinating, but instead we got the law/political side with communist accusations, what a waste. The writing is so lazy that we have three timelines and two of them are not interesting at all. Some bits are interesting and well done, but I would not watch it again.
Rated 11 Aug 2023
storyoftheyestoryoftheye
Rated 10 Aug 2023
10
2nd
What a waste of celluloid.
Rated 10 Aug 2023
frederikaFrederikA
Rated 03 Aug 2023
70
67th
The Los Alamos part of the film was brilliant (with the arguable exception of the -let's be fair- underwhelming climatic detonation), and Nolan's approach to decades-spanning biopics initially feels fresh and energetic. But ultimately the *two* framing narratives end up sabotaging the whole thing, feeling both too extensive and fairly insignificant contrasted to the almost completely omitted "these are the consequences of your actions" aspect of him becoming the Destroyer of Worlds.
Rated 03 Aug 2023
darrenDarren
Rated 02 Aug 2023
60
30th
Not a failure of a movie but mostly just dull with some masterful cinematic regurgitations and a strong central performance. Maybe do a couple quick searches on Einstein after watching this and really think about why Nolan left certain things out (but you can’t talk about the politics of this movie lest you be called a scold or not accepting of movie magic hokum). Tenet might’ve been stupid and not as good of a movie but it was my kind of entertaining. Give me more of that
Rated 02 Aug 2023
errol246Errol246
Rated 31 Jul 2023
4
55th
I liked Oppenheimer, but I didn't love it. I left the cinema feeling that it was an important film to see, but more because of the story it tells and not because of how it tells it. The acting is very good, and it is a beautiful film to behold, but it has pacing issues that detracts from the overall experience. Sound design in certain scenes is excellent, and I'm glad I saw it in the cinema for those scenes alone. As a whole, though, Oppenheimer might have worked better as a limited TV series.
Rated 31 Jul 2023
sanelyidlesanelyidle
Rated 30 Jul 2023
70
45th
Good performances and visuals. The film is overlong and seems to try too hard with overly showy dialogue. It almost seems as though they felt each soundbite might make it into a trailer cut. This left a lot of the conversation feeling quite stilted. I'll echo another reviewer's comment that Twin Peaks S3 ep8 did a much better job of realising the horrors of nuclear war
Rated 30 Jul 2023
michaelm2391michaelm2391
Rated 29 Jul 2023
10
14th
what worries me about the fate of the world more than any nation's nuclear capabilities is when me and my friends are the only ones laughing in the theater at this 20-kiloton dollop of nothing
Rated 29 Jul 2023
le_mamile mami
Rated 26 Jul 2023
85
89th
Just after leaving the theater, I wondered how many Oscars this film could win. It's 18. Definitely exceeded my expectations. For a 3-hour film, being this moving and interesting all the way, with focusing on different chapters of history, it's quite an achievement. Most importantly, it's an incredible character analysis. From his love of physics to his psychological troubles, from his paving the way for one of the deadliest weapons in world history, to his ambiguous political views.
Rated 26 Jul 2023
ametrineAmetrine
Rated 22 Jul 2023
10
91st
I didn't expect this to feel so much like Inception but I feel like I probably should have.
Rated 22 Jul 2023
pixiedakittyPixiedaKitty
Rated 21 Jul 2023
6
54th
While the film was certainly good, there was a level of unnecessary epicness in storytelling. Additionally, i felt the story was both fast and slow paced. Ultimately, it was a well written, directed, acted, and produced film.
Rated 21 Jul 2023
memoriamemoria
Rated 12 Aug 2024
70
15th
politically retarded, occasionally cool to look at. The scene with the fire was cool. Repulsive protagonist....Nolan just tries to handwave the whole "oh yeah he poisons his teacher" by excusing it under the context of "but he was a real meanie face", fuck nolan and oppenhiemer.
Rated 12 Aug 2024
perrystroikaPerryStroika
Rated 03 Jul 2024
64
60th
Making a Hollywood movie about physics is like dancing about architecture. It's just a mismatch of form and content and what you get is a mess of complexity boiled down to bumper sticker slogans which are then driven into the ground as if to bludgeon you into submission. The characterizations are pat and one dimensional, the dialogue is on the nose (Kitty: "The brat is asleep. Where are the martinis!") and the whole affair has the leaden air of prestige white elephant art.
Rated 03 Jul 2024
madmanMadMan
Rated 01 Apr 2024
88
60th
This movie channels Amadeus and has it's main character come across as an arrogant jerk who deeply regrets unleashing the means to destroy ourselves upon mankind. Probably could have been shorter, really.
Rated 01 Apr 2024
sadmanSadman
Rated 11 Mar 2024
85
81st
A perfect clockwork of a movie. Every piece of filmmaking works together to create something monumental and furiously engaging. Nolan is not directing here but rather conducting, turning a pensive three hour character study into a cinematic symphony using all his signature flourishes. Nolan isn’t known for his dialogue, but I think the charmingly old-school banter here is the secret weapon that makes this so entertaining. Still unsure how Fission and Fusion interlink thematically.
Rated 11 Mar 2024
braddad68braddad68
Rated 20 Feb 2024
98
94th
Got to this big one. Only 2 points off for a minor personal criticism. Incredible ensemble cast, well-paced telling of a true story and great music.
Rated 20 Feb 2024
terrymacterrymac
Rated 15 Feb 2024
80
84th
An odd film. I liked the cast. The tale was interesting, although some story choices added nothing. The film got close, but seemed to pull back from making us really feel the true horror or scale of what was going on. Some parts felt extraneous. Having so much music over so much of the dialogue was an odd choice - it made it feel like a trailer or a montage in parts. That said, it was often gripping, and made with some care. Interesting. I'd probably watch it again.
Rated 15 Feb 2024
karlsonkarlson
Rated 06 Feb 2024
65
31st
From start to finish the directing and editing create a panting effect that screams urgency, but because of the poster and the premise it's obvious that we're about to watch a devestating chapter in the history of science, warfare and politics so isn't the urgency clear already? Maybe it mirrored the turmulent inner world of Oppenheimer himself but it that case it should've stayed on his skin continuously, which it didn't. + 5 for depicting the first atomic explosion ever without sound.
Rated 06 Feb 2024
mixmaxtermixmaxter
Rated 16 Jan 2024
80
41st
the film works well as a procedural outlining the history of Oppie and his development of the bomb, but doesn't do much to grasp at the aftermath or what it means. i found the third act pivot to courtroom drama odd, though it worked pretty well
Rated 16 Jan 2024
walkearthwalkearth
Rated 02 Jan 2024
35
17th
Bad editing made for a TikTok audience rich in attention deficit. The first two hours are almost unbearably boring - hectic editing and every scene is explanatory and destroying the "show, don't tell" rule. The latter half picks it up with two notable scenes: Oppenheimer being stripped naked in front of his wife and inquisition, and the sickening play with human lives by the elites. Shame the filmmakers were cowards, no courage to show the consequences, but we had to look at Murphy's face.
Rated 02 Jan 2024
glifosfatoglifosfato
Rated 19 Dec 2023
61
51st
an interesting story told skilfully, but some of the intended tension is lost, given we already know from the offset how it will unfold. also, the self-importance gets tiresome after a while, which its excessive length only aggravates.
Rated 19 Dec 2023
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 10 Dec 2023
80
63rd
Packed with dense expository information (par for Nolan's course), this is a generally compelling (and physically impressive) experience, even if there comes a point where Nolan's penchant for tricky, time-jumping storytelling becomes frustrating, especially if you find Murphy's commanding performance chilly and remote. Nolan doesn't utilise his stacked cast in a way that aids his storytelling, though it's heartening to see Downey fire back to life in a genuinely impressive supporting turn.
Rated 10 Dec 2023
jschlanskyJSchlansky
Rated 10 Dec 2023
65
50th
Oppenheimer can be thoroughly engrossing when it's firing on all cylinders, but the script has some major shortcomings, mostly in the character department, and I quite disliked the editing (which means it will certainly be nominated for best editing, and probably win), especially the editing of the countless montages. So many sequences felt like I was watching a long trailer for Oppenheimer instead of the actual film.
Rated 10 Dec 2023
capodelnullacapodelnulla
Rated 07 Dec 2023
70
57th
should have been named *poor oppenheimer he didn't mean it* it's a technical achievement for sure- and boiling down such a thing back into people-talking-in-a-room type of filmmaking is something i appreciate but it still equalizes people and structures and this is the main political problem this film has. it's not that you can't make a film about this, but when you do it like this, you just don't have a critical understanding of this event and politics.
Rated 07 Dec 2023
kough33kough33
Rated 29 Nov 2023
73
64th
I’m beginning to think that Nolan works double on the editing and sound design in order to avoid character development. He rarely leaves the audience with a great knowledge of character’s inner thoughts, and here, we are deliberately distanced from Oppenheimer so that the doubt in his mind could be manifested. Unsuccessful in there, however for me, it’s Nolan’s best in the past 10 years. He has completely become a Hollywood director.
Rated 29 Nov 2023
utskUtSk
Rated 18 Nov 2023
70
64th
The overly dramatic dialogue, music and editing make this feel like a 180min trailer. I guess this was the only way to make a 3h biopic watchable for the ADHD riddled modern audience, but what an unnecessary mess. The subject is fascinating and Murphy is excellent but where is this masterpiece critics are selling? This movie is so hyper-kinetic, it never lets any scene breathe. I would have much rather spend 3h on the Manhattan project and JRO moral dilemma and left McCarthyism to its own movie.
Rated 18 Nov 2023
p_u_l_pP u l p
Rated 18 Nov 2023
34
21st
Thank god he didn't use the line "Some men just want to watch the world burn." again in this movie and ruin it for me.
Rated 18 Nov 2023
christofchristof
Rated 11 Nov 2023
40
8th
Self-important, pompous rubbish. All you have to imagine is that you are watching it in modern-day Hiroshima or Nagasaki and experiencing how the films Western myopia omits the people directly affected by Oppenheimer. This one is not for me.
Rated 11 Nov 2023
medikolaynmedikolayn
Rated 09 Nov 2023
62
36th
3 hours of talking back and forth.
Rated 09 Nov 2023
chevanChevan
Rated 30 Sep 2023
94
67th
His 'suffering' was too subtle!
Rated 30 Sep 2023
guy-piranhaguy piranha
Rated 29 Aug 2023
70
69th
craftmanship and performances (what a cast!) aside, i found it often hard to stay invested in the stream of concsciousness, trailer-like editing and the centerpiece turned out to be somewhat anticlimactic. nolan is a visual and creative powerhouse, heavy on spectacle and complex plot development. hence his most dialog laden and straightforward base plot just HAD to fall short of my expectations.
Rated 29 Aug 2023
cussotcussot
Rated 21 Aug 2023
80
51st
This was the beginning of my childhood End Times story and I found this telling of it weirdly anti-climactic. To center the narrative so rivetingly on Oppenheimer drains the development of the A-bomb of its significance for all us non-Oppenheimers (aka Everybody Else). I felt like an ambivalent, side-lined cheerleader. Yay, Bob, you go.
Rated 21 Aug 2023
seethruskinSeethruskin
Rated 16 Aug 2023
3
24th
Give me the brash stupidity of tenet or the cloying sentimentally of Interstellar over this trite, bordering on entering a baaaad Sorkin zone where the crowd is supposed to get out of the seat and clap for lady Justice against the hypocrites shif. Nolan can shoot a movie decently but less impactful with the jumbled mess everything else is
Rated 16 Aug 2023
edkrakedkrak
Rated 10 Aug 2023
65
54th
[SPOILER ALERT!] Starts a bit lame with too much dynamic editing late-Malick-wannabe style. Fortunately it gets better and better with great middle act about Los Alamos culminating with best scene of the film which paradoxically is not bomb ignition, but surreal Oppie's speech about Hiroshima. For a moment I thought this film will end up being brilliant, but unfortunately Nolan completely sinks it from there by uninteresting court/Strauss drama. Still worth a watch, but what a waste of material.
Rated 10 Aug 2023
mattorama12mattorama12
Rated 08 Aug 2023
84
94th
I mostly loved it. Gripping throughout, fascinating in its depiction of a singular and troubled mind, and technically masterful. I do think the intercutting timelines made it difficult to understand the stakes at any given time during the first two acts. By the third act, when the stakes had been crystallized, I still wasn't sure why Oppie's security clearance was all that important given that he was no longer working on the bomb. Still an excellent film and I look forward to a rewatch.
Rated 08 Aug 2023
feritdgnferitdgn
Rated 06 Aug 2023
60
37th
Oppenheimer is a mediocre film both as a biopic and by Nolan standard. Although Goransson's outstanding music and great cast added immersion to the story, I was tired of the unnecessary excess of time jumps. When I think about the editing, there were scenes that I wouldn't have missed if they weren't in the film. It was below my expectation. (Capitol Spectrum Cineplex - 08/05/2023)
Rated 06 Aug 2023
zachreviewsZachReviews
Rated 05 Aug 2023
98
96th
It was a blast.
Rated 05 Aug 2023
bownBown
Rated 30 Jul 2023
86
79th
Been slacking on my final rating on this one despite seeing it in 70mm IMAX at work several times now because I needed to hit a captioned screening but I’ve done that now and DAMN I do think this is Nolan’s best. While it does suffer from his usual issues - being too enamoured with Clever Men and ignoring women’s interiority - it’s also powerful and propulsive with a shockingly effective mournful tone and all-timer visuals, sound design, and editing. Cillian and RDJ are ridiculously good.
Rated 30 Jul 2023
closedmouthclosedmouth
Rated 29 Jul 2023
80
69th
I’m a big dummy and started to tune out during the big climax of men talking in rooms while loud music played. But the first two acts are primo, some of the best shit Nolan has done
Rated 29 Jul 2023
yorgoyorgo
Rated 27 Jul 2023
45
17th
Evidently, Nolan, desperately, needed IMAX and non-stop music score(even during casual dialogues???) to make this movie watchable. The structure, especially at the ending(building up the twist), was too cliche/Hollywoody. The main character being portrayed as an angel, most dialogues being very mainstream, etc. classic Nolan stuff. It also felt like that C.Murphy was still playing Tommy, with the same gestures&mimics. Good effects, but that's not enough to make a good movie. Overall, alright.
Rated 27 Jul 2023
scuffedScuffed
Rated 27 Jul 2023
75
79th
There were some problems with the editing and overbearing music, but I didn't have as much trouble as other people seem to have. It was engaging enough throughout to get through the three hour runtime. I cringed at the JFK name drop.
Rated 27 Jul 2023
salomonSalomon
Rated 26 Jul 2023
78
93rd
C.Nolan masterpiece .. best cast .. best screen.. my expactations was fullfılled .. had very joyfull time in Cinema.. Must watch on BİG SCREEN ..!!! worth it every second.
Rated 26 Jul 2023
scholar69420Scholar69420
Rated 23 Jul 2023
79
85th
Ultimately this movie doesn’t meet the expectation of spectacle you have from a Christopher Nolan. Decent as a biopic, but it wasn’t big enough. Should’ve shown the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since it didn’t really have that much to say about anything. the actual bomb should have been a 10 minute sequence of crazy visuals. can’t believe that the first ever nuke test, as imagined by Christopher Nolan, felt underwhelming.
Rated 23 Jul 2023
anilscnanilscn
Rated 23 Jul 2023
60
66th
korktuğum gibi bir atom bombası aklaması yada övgüsü değil. ancak bu kadar hype hakedecek ne var onu anlamadım. klişelerin klişesi bir biyografi filmi, fazlası değil. bir de bombayı yapıp üzerine vicdan azabı çekmek tam bir safsata. atom bombasını yapacak kadar zeki bir adam bunun sonuçlarını bilemez mi?
Rated 23 Jul 2023
rapmastergrapmasterg
Rated 23 Jul 2023
90
94th
Greatest sound design I have ever seen (heard). So much information was conveyed through the use of volume and distortion. Was genuinely moved by the various reactions to atomic weapons.
Rated 23 Jul 2023
tpbradburytpbradbury
Rated 21 Jul 2023
98
98th
Amazing. Great score, with haunting synth. Fantastic cinematography. Nolan the best director for this. Murphy, well-suited. Incredible performances, some of the best by these actors: Nolan an even better director than I thought. Great storytelling, drama. I rewatched it and realised Nolan had dealt with Oppenheimer's martydom more intelligently than on first viewing, and many callbacks, as well as clever camerawork
Rated 21 Jul 2023
mrunusualMrUnusual
Rated 29 Nov 2024
26
6th
Unnecessarily long dialogues, arrogance, an attempt to forget and hide the bad things that happened. A selfish filmmaking
Rated 29 Nov 2024
ptmambaPTMamba
Rated 18 Nov 2024
95
73rd
I find this movie to be as close to perfection as a biography movie can be, if you got no clue about WW2 history this might be a boring one, but also may still be a good time, long but well paced, incredible cast for all characters, and director, no one else could do a movie about such topic/person as Nolan did here, great camera play, great effects, great drama, and incredible suspense and absolutely perfect sound score Truly amazing movie, and one of my favorites
Rated 18 Nov 2024
themacsaysthemacsays
Rated 27 Oct 2024
80
67th
Nolan is an amazing technical filmmaker. So much to admire here, not just that, the cast are great. Particularly enjoyed Matt Damon. I'm not a fan of biopics in general, this is maybe the best one I've seen. Nolan's chopped up timeline works pretty well, but at three hours, it's a bit too long.
Rated 27 Oct 2024
nikobr02Nikobr02
Rated 26 Oct 2024
87
35th
Too long imo
Rated 26 Oct 2024
uhrmacherUhrmacher
Rated 18 Sep 2024
65
2nd
I watched it after hearing a ton of hype and was disappointed. It's all over the place in a way that just didn't work for me.
Rated 18 Sep 2024
gogolitgogolit
Rated 06 Sep 2024
60
23rd
An unsatisfying and problematic exposition of 20th Century inividual existentialism, rather than, very oddly, the actual political, social, moral historical issues of the A-bomb. These big issues aren't ignored, but that's what makes this such a puzzling film - what exactly is it's point? Purely a character analysis? If so - Oppenheimer as a personality totally fails to warrant the Shakespeare treatment. maybe more expressionistic visual form may have been more fitting.
Rated 06 Sep 2024
hrabia667hrabia667
Rated 03 Sep 2024
70
32nd
It's fine but nothing extraordinary. Visuals, music and acting are great, true. But to be honest it's just a documentary movie like from Discovery TV.
Rated 03 Sep 2024
chriis52chriis52
Rated 31 Aug 2024
70
21st
Wouldnt watch again
Rated 31 Aug 2024
ceyhunk26ceyhunk26
Rated 30 Aug 2024
86
96th
Plot 18/20 Fiction 17/20 Casting/Acting 18/20 Worldbuilding 17/20 Entertainment 16/20
Rated 30 Aug 2024
usamausama
Rated 21 Aug 2024
96
67th
accurate watch date
Rated 21 Aug 2024
gokseltuzungokseltuzun
Rated 18 Aug 2024
67
23rd
Film değil daha çok 3 saatlik fragman izledik.full müzik gerilim.
Rated 18 Aug 2024
0x13370x1337
Rated 03 Aug 2024
80
75th
Cillian Murphy kills it in his role of Oppenheimer. I was a bit fazed by the parallel stories (one in the "present" when Oppenheimer's security clearance is revoked and one in the past that recalls the story of the Manhattan Project). However both stories converge seamlessly. I'd say that 50% of my enjoyment of this movie came from Zimmer's soundtrack. An absolute blast.
Rated 03 Aug 2024
casualreviewer101casualreviewer101
Rated 01 Aug 2024
95
45th
Just a solid movie
Rated 01 Aug 2024
colonel-kurtzColonel Kurtz
Rated 31 Jul 2024
92
63rd
Great spectacle especially on the big screen.
Rated 31 Jul 2024
ferzathFerzath
Rated 23 Jul 2024
76
56th
While Murphy's acting was splendid, there's the big question of if this even needed to be this long. The movie is certainly dragged out in certain aspects. Cinematography can't be faulted. Maybe it's time for Nolan to face up to the fact that not every movie needs to be 3+ hours long. Also, for Nolan being praised as much as he is, how come German and Dutch speaking people understood nothing of the Dutch spoken line? That was neither Dutch nor German.
Rated 23 Jul 2024
michaelhmichael.h
Rated 11 Jul 2024
96
76th
Altogether too loud in theater showings, but an excellent movie otherwise. Needed more cigarettes in my opinion
Rated 11 Jul 2024
jessjess125Jessjess125
Rated 20 Jun 2024
89
73rd
Damn that’s dark.
Rated 20 Jun 2024
letskillrobotsletskillrobots
Rated 19 Jun 2024
24
71st
This is the lamest casting job if all time. I kept expecting Vince Vaughn to show up.
Rated 19 Jun 2024
wolfwoodeWolfwoode
Rated 10 Jun 2024
80
71st
It's not the best picture of 2023. It's not even Christopher Nolan's best film. I don't want to dog on it super hard but I like "Memento" better than this. For a 3 hour movie, it moves fast. The dialogue scenes are cut quickly, it attempts to have Aaron Sorkin's fast, quippy dialogue, but it lacks charm, wit, and nuance. The movie is a bunch of people having conversations so important they have to talk quickly. It has interesting points to make about humanity and the bomb, but I won't rewatch.
Rated 10 Jun 2024
yms_unofficialYMS unofficial
Rated 12 May 2024
12
51st
Engaging double feature experience seeing Oppenheimer and Barbie back-to-back. Strong performances, especially from Cillian Murphy in the lead role Visually impressive, especially in 70mm IMAX format Powerful musical score, though at times cliched or overused. Ambitious artistic choices that don't always land. Overly long at 3 hours; becomes repetitive Overall a mixed bag with impressive elements but pacing issues Rating: 6/10
Rated 12 May 2024

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