With just a few days left for Christopher Nolan’s much-hyped and expected film Oppenheimer to hit the big screens, early responses for the film have already poured in, hailing the project. The film had its premiere recently in Paris.
Director-writer Paul Schrader who has worked in films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Last Temptation of Christ, praised Oppenheimer, as he wrote on Facebook, “The best, most important film of this century. If you see one film in cinemas this year it should be Oppenheimer. I’m not a Nolan groupie but this one blows the doors off the hinges.”
Equally, the film also got a huge traction among the Hollywood critics, who praised it for its craft. Robbie Collins who writes for Telegraph, wrote on Twitter, “Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else.”
Matt Maytum of Total Film said that Oppenheimer, “a character study on the grandest scale” left him “stunned”. Praising Cilian Murphy who plays the central character of Robert Oppenheimer, Matt said that the actor delivered a “sublime central performance”. “An epic historical drama but with a distinctly Nolan sensibility: the tension, structure, sense of scale, startling sound design, remarkable visuals. Wow,” Matt wrote.
Calling the film a “spectacular achievement in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling”, film journalist Lindsey Bahr of AP, hailed the performances of the cast, as she wrote, “It’s hard to talk about something as dense as this in something as silly as a tweet or thread but Oppenheimer really is a serious, philosophical, adult drama that’s as tense and exciting as Dunkirk. And the big moment — THAT MOMENT — is awe inspiring.”
Oppenheimer, which is scheduled to hit the theatres on Friday, stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who is called the father of the atomic bomb. He is known for his role in the Manhattan Project during World War II and has been credited as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, a place known for assembling bombs.
Cillian Murphy stars in the titular character, marking his debut as a lead in Nolan’s films. Oppenheimer also stars Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh, among others.