‘Oppenheimer’ first reactions praise “astonishing” Christopher Nolan epic

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Oppenheimer have praised the film as a “knockout” and Christopher Nolan’s “most impressive work yet”.The upcoming biopic stars Cillian Murphy as scientist and “father of the atomic bomb” J.

Robert Oppenheimer, and is set to be released on July 21, 2023.The first social media reactions to the anticipated epic have arrived after a world premiere event in Paris yesterday (June 11) where Murphy, Nolan and cast members Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.

and Matt Damon walked the red carpet at the Grand Rex Theater.“Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else,” shared Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin.He added: “And for all those who’ve groused about the lack of sex in Christopher Nolan’s earlier work…boy oh BOY, are you getting some sex as only Nolan could stage it in this one.”Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else.— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) July 11, 2023And for all those who’ve groused about the lack of sex in Christopher Nolan’s earlier work…boy oh BOY, are you getting some sex as only Nolan could stage it in this one— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) July 11, 2023Jonathan Dean, writer at The Sunday Times, wrote: “Totally absorbed in OPPENHEIMER, a dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are.