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Sneak peek test review10/2/2023 ![]() One word of warning: These modern-day IMAX screenings often have the sound volume cranked up near the "threshold of pain" level, so be kind to your eardrums and have a pair of plugs handy to go with your $20 tub of buttered popcorn. Göransson previously wrote the soundtrack for Nolan's "Tenet" and is best known by "Star Wars" fans for conjuring up the rousing score for Disney+'s " The Mandalorian." Göransson delivers a stupendous epic score for "Oppenheimer," one that elevates this film in myriad ways with its ominous strings, heavenly harps, interludes of classical piano and old-fashioned Hollywood elegance. Music is always a major component of any Christopher Nolan spectacle, and on "Oppenheimer" he has again chosen to work with Academy Award-winning composer Ludwig Göransson ("Black Panther"). was entering a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. Equally, it would have been interesting to tour the Trinity Test Site itself to survey the melted blast crater and surrounding destruction as a harbinger of things to come.Ĭillian Murphy portrays J. ![]() One glaring omission seems to be Nolan's decision to not reveal ground zero historical images in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions, or Oppenheimer's own reactions to those photos. However, it's obviously a conscious decision to respect the Japanese victims of those terrifying moments of horror, to not glorify or sensationalize war itself, and avoid any derivative or cliched Hollywood tropes.Īside from the riveting bomb-building sequences unfolding in little Los Alamos, New Mexico, the film keeps its focus tightly wrapped around suspicious closed-door government hearings and the anti-communist hysteria that led to Oppenheimer's security clearance being revoked years after two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and the U.S. Particularly absorbing are Tom Conti as an elderly Albert Einstein and an especially riveting cameo by another Nolan alum, Gary Oldman, as President Harry S Truman. The performances are all outstanding - not only by Murphy, Downey Jr., Blunt and Damon but also by the movie’s stellar array of esteemed actors in memorable ensemble roles, including James Remar, Matthew Modine, David Dastmalchian, Josh Hartnett, Florence Pugh, Jason Clarke and Kenneth Branagh. Robert Oppenheimer.ĭirector Christopher Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema prepare star Cillian Murphy for a pivotal scene in "Oppenheimer." (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Visual effects recreating atomic explosions were conducted in-camera without the use of digital trickery.Ĭillian Murphy has been nailing every performance he's ever filmed, from his turn in director Danny Boyle's chilling zombie flick "28 Days Later" to his psychopathic villain, Scarecrow, in Nolan's "Batman Begins" to a BAFTA-nominated gig in Netflix's period crime drama "Peaky Blinders." Here on the biggest of screens, Murphy is transformed in his finest role to date, bringing to life all the complexities and contradictions of the tortured rock-star scientist, J. ![]() The impressively grand scale "Oppenheimer" exhibits is truly breathtaking (and deafening as well), especially since it was shot by Dutch-Swedish cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema ("Interstellar," "Dunkirk," "Tenet') using massive IMAX cameras equipped with special 65-millimeter film stock. Robert Oppenheimer," this $100 million movie stars Cillian Murphy in the title role as the Manhattan Project's enigmatic director, Emily Blunt as his boozy wife, Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as the gruff Gen. Sherwin's award-winning 2005 biography, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. (Image credit: Universal Pictures)Īdapted from Kai Bird and Martin J. "Oppenheimer" delves into the life of the theoretical physicist who became the father of the atomic bomb.
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