Oppenheimer
The physicist who led the Manhattan Project builds the bomb, then faces a country that no longer trusts him.
Selected for its moral seriousness at scale: a historical epic that refuses to resolve its subject's guilt.
J. Robert Oppenheimer gathers the brightest minds of his generation at Los Alamos to build a weapon before Germany can. Years later, a closed-door security hearing picks apart his loyalties, his politics and his private life. Nolan braids the two timelines into a portrait of brilliance and complicity, with Cillian Murphy's face as the film's central landscape.
- Christopher Nolan
- Cillian MurphyJ. Robert Oppenheimer
- Emily BluntKitty Oppenheimer
- Matt DamonLeslie Groves
- Robert Downey Jr.Lewis Strauss
- Florence PughJean Tatlock
Curated adjacencies
01 / 03 admitted · 2 withheldEvery grouping names one axis of similarity — and the axes we refused. Pairings that could not be defended were withheld rather than filled in.
Similar in moral pressure and psychological intensity
Grouped where the viewer is placed under obligation rather than suspense. Intensity without spectacle.