Oppenheimer

2023 Drama
80%

General Leslie Groves Jr spearheads the Manhattan Project to research and develop a devastating weapon capable of ending the Second World War. J Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues subsequently risk destroying humanity to create an atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan's Bafta and Oscar-winning biopic, starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt

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by Brian Lloyd
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'Oppenheimer' delivers a career-best performance for Cillian Murphy

In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is called before a secret hearing of the Atomic Energy Commission to delve into his apparent leanings towards Communism early in his career. Through his testimony, Oppenheimer recounts his tumultuous affair with Communist writer Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), his marriage to Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt), and most of all, his work leading the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos with General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) and how it brought him into conflict with Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.), a powerful Washington player with an axe to grind...

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