And just to be a completenik, here is my Oppenheimer review:
Oppenheimer is a deep-dive biopic into the career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father” of the atomic bomb. It’s a film that demands to be seen in a theater with fantastic sound; a day later, my soul still rattles from the deep subwoofed bass.
This is a beautiful movie and the the actors absolutely melt into their roles. Halfway through the movie you’re like, “Wait, that’s Robert Downey Jr?” “Wait, that’s Emily Blunt?” “Wait, is that Kenneth Branagh?” You get the point.
I recommend it with reservations. Christopher Nolan, as he is wont to do, jumps back and forth in time. The time jumps were seamless, but yet I found them to be a bit distracting. It all comes together by the end, but in the middle it’s easy to get confused and think, “Did I miss something?”
And color me geek—although I don’t mind seeing a nude Florence Pugh, I thought that those scenes were a bit gratuitious, and I would have been happier if they had spent a little more time fleshing out the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project. For example the only time you really see Feynman is when he’s playing the bongos. But the positives outweigh the negatives. I have a reasonably good lay understanding of the science and technology, and from what I saw they got it absolutely right.
Oppenheimer is an uneven film but absolutely worth seeing. This isn’t Nolan’s best work (I’m going with Dunkirk on that) but it’s good. Again, see it in a theater with outstanding sound please.