Oppenheimer's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
Christopher Nolan's portrait of the father of the nuclear bomb is a triumph, like witnessing history itself being split open.
ABC
Christopher Nolan deserves every superlative for his brilliant take on J. Robert Oppenheimer (a flawless Cillian Murphy), the dark knight of the atomic age. This terrifying, transfixing three-hour epic emerges as a monumental achievement on the march into screen history.
Los Angeles Times
Not for the first time, the demonstrative cleverness of [Nolan's] storytelling can seem too precise, too hermetically sealed and engineered, for a sense of raw collective devastation to fully take hold. That might be a rare failing of this extraordinarily gripping and resonant movie, or it could be a minor mercy
The Guardian
'Oppenheimer' is poignantly lost in the kaleidoscopic mass of broken glimpses: the sacrificial hero-fetish of the American century.
The New Yorker
The irony is that what makes the movie challenging is not the scientific theory -which is delivered with a diplomatically light touch- but a glut of political paranoia.
Vanity Fair
Even when 'Oppenheimer' settles down into a more realistic, less phantasmagorical groove (which it does fairly quickly), it remains every inch a Nolan film. You feel that in the heady, dense, dizzying way it slices and dices chronology, psychodrama, scientific inquiry, political backstabbing, and history written with lightning.