★★★★★

The moral complexity of Oppenheimer is matched only by its extraordinary technical achievements. Both are peerless. This is one more towering achievement for Christopher Nolan in a filmography overflowing with creative impetus. Moreover, Oppenheimer is a remarkable, multi-sensory reimagining all that a biopic can be. There’s precious little of convention here. Linear history is torn asunder in the name of art, with a patchwork narrative instead eliciting both insight and thematic urgency from a story that is broadly well known in the public consciousness. To say the film is nuclear would do only to scratch the surface.