Oppenheimer

The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer — the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb and then spent the rest of his life haunted by what he had done — is told in Christopher Nolan’s most mature film. The 1954 security clearance hearing that stripped him of his reputation frames the story. Cillian Murphy’s extraordinary performance captures both Oppenheimer’s intellectual brilliance and his profound moral ambiguity: a man who enabled the deaths of hundreds of thousands and could never escape what that meant.