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- Cecilia Barroso @ Cenas de Cinema [Portuguese]
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: A lot to process in one viewing, but Christopher Nolan’s latest is such a riveting character study that captured your attention with an unforgettable experience from a visual and sound standpoint.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An intense, inventively filmed, and well-acted biopicture about the kinds of events that are hard on the heart.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ is a testament to Nolan the filmmaker occasionally hindered by Nolan the writer
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: An intellectual thriller that is a masterpiece of image and word, of complex ideas made manifest, and all kept at a very human level to maintain constant immediacy.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Christopher Nolan’s three hour magnum opus is one of the most unusually structured biopics in recent memory… a movie of a million moving pieces, with Nolan revisiting seminal moments, turning them around to inspect them from every angle.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: An emotionally compelling chronicle recounting the life of the “father of the atomic bomb”.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: With human paradoxes at its nucleus, this is a riveting portrait, both intimate and epic, of the self-involved men who think they make the world go round… and too often, tragically, do.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: There is a lot of substance to the film, but there is a lot of style as well (it is after all a Christopher Nolan film), and the style sometimes gets in the way of the substance.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Victoria Luxford @ City AM
- Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip
- Excerpt: Oppenheimer is about genius, about a man, about a bomb, but it’s also about the waste laid to the world by weak men.
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Oppenheimer is more than a movie about the creation of the atomic bomb. It’s a 3-hour epic about the human experience. Nolan is a master of his craft and continues to prove why he is one of the greatest directors in Hollywood.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Thankfully, despite my qualms with Nolan purposefully structuring things to exploit our belief he’s finally told a straightforward story, I was still completely taken by its gravitas. Give Murphy and Downey Jr. Oscars.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: In his latest endeavor, ‘Oppenheimer’, Christopher Nolan presents a dense, sprawling, and isolating biopic that, unfortunately, veers towards excessive tedium, often obscuring moments of true magnificence within its labyrinthine narrative.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Foi há menos de uma semana que o cineasta americano Paul Schrader anunciou ao mundo a seguinte frase: “Oppenheimer é o filme mais importante deste século”. Tal anúncio seria imediatamente assumido como uma espécie de advento, rapidamente desencadeando efeitos um pouco por todos meios de comunicação ligados ao cinema.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: History, ethics and humankind are given nuanced space in Nolan’s masterpiece. Take from it what you will. For me it is a warning about how fragile our freedom and democracy are and how readily, no matter how high the status, an individual can be brought down.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: With Oppenheimer, filmmaker Christopher Nolan has made nothing less than the Lawrence of Arabia of the 21st century.
- [New] | James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: What do you want from theory alone?
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
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