When you’re watching the filmmaker working on this scale and with this precision, there’s no other big-screen experience to match it.
Galaxy-brained, visually jaw-dropping and moving with the thunder of a juggernaut, A-bomb origin story Oppenheimer is in many ways the very definition of a Christopher Nolan film. The performances are perfectly judged without being showy – Cillian Murphy finally gets a long-awaited Hollywood headline role as nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and Robert Downey Jr shakes the Tony Stark thing for good with a nimble, deft and charismatic supporting turn – with everything in service to a historic story that deserves all of Nolan’s trademark gravitas. When you’re watching the filmmaker working on this scale and with this precision, there’s no other big-screen experience to match it.