This weekend, legions of movie lovers will descend upon theaters, popcorn in hand and catheter in place, girding themselves for the single most unlikely double feature ever conceived by the internet. When it was announced that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget, bigger-canvas biopic about the man dubbed “the father of the …
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and two films explore that abiding Robert Burns proverb this week: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-sized three-hour biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb,” and Barbie, a Mattel-sanctioned deconstruction of the patriarchy from the fertile mind of Greta Gerwig. Only …
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In the beginning, there were simply explosions. Smaller bangs — the big one would come much later, in the New Mexico desert. But for J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physicist who would guide the greatest scientific minds of his generation toward creating a doomsday device, it was all just a …
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What are the hallmarks of a Christopher Nolan film? Immense IMAX imagery. Starry ensembles. Long takes. Tight, geometric compositions. Nonlinear story. And, of course, a booming score. For the music to Oppenheimer, a sprawling epic about how J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) became the so-called “father of the atomic bomb” …
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Rosemary Lane’s boss summoned her to his office. It was important, the doctor told her, and the young nurse followed without question. There, a small group of hospital staff gathered around a radio to listen to President Truman address the nation. There was a remarkable new development in the ongoing …
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Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer cast was prepared for the SAG-AFTRA strike to be called on Thursday. The London premiere of the film was moved up by an hour to buy themselves more time to complete interviews and press opportunities on the red carpet before they would be indefinitely barred from doing …
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Tom Cruise‘s latest mission is to single-handedly prove that movies should be seen in theaters. The Mission: Impossible star has confirmed he will see Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie as soon as they open simultaneously on July 21. “I want to see bothBarbieandOppenheimer,” the actor told The Sydney …
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An Austin police detective named Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) sits in a therapist’s office. His daughter was kidnapped at a playground — he’d been watching her, then suddenly, poof, she’s gone — and the story has been all over the news for months. The cop is dutifully attending his mandated …
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T HE SUN IS SHINING in the small riverside town of New Ross, Ireland. It’s Good Friday, and I’m standing outside St. Mary’s, a defunct Catholic school. Crew members scamper toward their lights and cranes. Two rows of schoolgirls are led by a nun through the yard. Incongruously, through the …
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J. Robert Oppenheimer does his darnedest to bring about a little peace by creating the biggest damn bomb the world has ever seen in the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The upcoming film stars Cillian Murphy as the titular theoretical physicist who spearheaded the creation of the atomic bomb …
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