Oppenheimer

"Both singularly propulsive and frustratingly obtuse."

"A triumph, like witnessing history itself being split open."

"Flawed but extraordinary."

"A big, ballsy, serious-minded cinematic event of a type now virtually extinct from the studios."

"Magnificent."

"Clever, imaginative and Christopher Nolan at his best."

"Both thrilling and wonky, brilliant and overstuffed, too much and not enough."

"Gripping..."

"(Murphy) gives a phenomenal performance..."

"Willfully and startlingly dispenses with the plodding routines of the average biopic."

"Breathtaking..."

"A kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty..."

"A juggernaut historical biopic that you'll want to see again asap, even if it doesn’t all work on the first sweep."

"Deeply flawed but brilliant."

"Thrilling..."

"A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level."

"Cillian Murphy turns in a haunting career-best performance... and Robert Downey Jr. astounds in a way we haven’t seen in quite some time."

"A film of magnitude, profundity and dazzling artistry."

"Christopher Nolan’s staggering film... condenses a titanic shift in consciousness into three haunted hours."

"Boldly imaginative and (Nolan's) most mature work yet..."

"Often laborious yet genuinely strange and gripping..."

"This is a film about terrible risks and a planet likely destined to destroy itself someday. And we see it, and feel it."

"(Nolan has) taken a historical story we know a bit about and turned it into an edge-of-the-seat, heart-in-the-mouth drama."

"Rarely have the highs and lows of politics been so astoundingly charted."

"Nolan’s film sags under the weight of this complicated exposition."