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While being interrogated about supposed communist links, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) reflects on his achievements — and mistakes — as the architect of the atom bomb.
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
REVIEWS
★★★★★ Empire
At the film’s pulsing nucleus is Murphy as Oppenheimer, and he is compelling throughout.
★★★★ Guardian
Christopher Nolan’s account of the physicist who led the Manhattan Project captures the most agonising of success stories
★★★★★ Evening Standard
For a director known for his dark visions, this is his most profoundly pessimistic work yet… but it is also frequently very funny
★★★★★ Time Out
Christopher Nolan delivers his most spectacular, cerebral blockbuster yet – headlined by a career-best Cillian Murphy
THE CAST
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
The cast includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold (Halloween franchise), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
“Clever, imaginative and Christopher Nolan at his best”
Independent
“Cillian Murphy dazzles as the destroyer of worlds. Christopher Nolan's portrait of the father of the nuclear bomb is a triumph, like witnessing history itself being split”
Telegraph