Ep905: OPPENHEIMER (2023) - Round Table Review
Earth's Mightiest Critics go nuclear with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer!
This grand biopic stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant and disturbed scientist who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb.
How does this passion project stack up to Nolan's other historical epics like The Prestige and Dunkirk? Does the writer/director push his love of non-linear storytelling too far this time? And, most importantly, what's the deal with “Barbenheimer”?
Watch our contentious analysis and find out!
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