Oppenheimer

[Opens July 21 in theaters.] Christopher Nolan's powerful, riveting, well-written, multilayered, superbly acted, tense, complex, nonlinear, thought-provoking, star-studded (Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Kenneth Branagh, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine, Tony Goldwyn, Olivia Thirlby, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, James D'Arcy, Gregory Jbara, Josh Zuckerman, Michael Angarano, Scott Grimes, Casey Affleck, Tom Conti, Jack Quaid, David Dastmalchian, Josh Peck, Devon Bostick, Alex Wolff, Alden Ehrenreich, Isaac Rabi, Dane DeHaan, and Dylan Arnold), 3-hour biographical IMAX thriller based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2005 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy novel in which eccentric, womanizing theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), who had an alcoholic biologist and botanist wife (Emily Blunt), leads the effort with the Manhattan Project director Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon) in Los Alamos in the 1940s during WWII to build the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) with other scientists (Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, et al.) and after struggling with the ethical and moral dilemma and his conscience in creating the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer becomes the unjust target of forces within the U.S. government wishing to discredit and muzzle him to avoid his interference with their own future plans for use of the bomb.
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