Oppenheimer

... scientific and historical accuracy are key. Fortunately for fans of both, "Oppenheimer" delivers in telling the truth about the story of the Manhattan Project, at least as much as can be expected of a Hollywood blockbuster.

A story of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary times. What they created really did "change the world," but no one here rises to the level of hero, or even tragic hero, and even the villainy on display is more vanity than anything else.

Perhaps in trimming the story to three hours, some of the male-female narrative connective tissue was cut, which may be why, for all its fascinating moving parts, the busy biopic isn't more emotionally explosive.

Not since The Master, perhaps, has a filmmaker used the large gauge to such intimate effect, making a vast canvas from one man's troubled features.

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster captures the scientific triumphs and monstrous sins of the Manhattan Project.

Nolan's Oppenheimer barely qualifies as a biopic... Instead it's a movie investigating the nature of power: how it is created, how it is kept in balance, and how it leads people into murky quandaries that refuse simplistic answers.

Perhaps inevitably, it falls short of its ambitions. But it's bracing to see a studio movie these days, particularly one with such huge scope, that at least attempts to serve up more than recycled goods.

Nolan discards the dates and details of traditional biopic storytelling, which is a frustrating if evocative choice. He thrusts us headlong and simultaneously into the advent and fallout of the nuclear arms race with [a] nagging insistence

This is a film with intelligence, purpose and historic value.

The movie is as sluggish as if Nolan were underlining the script's most salient passages onscreen...

This is a very heady, brainy spectacle. A thesis. A portrait of a genius, his triumphs and shame.

Thanks to Nolan and Murphy, we see the full Oppenheimer -- neither monster nor savior, victim nor villain, but in the end, just a man.

Befitting his paradigm-shattering protagonist, Nolan so audaciously merges form and content that he completely upends the 'great-man' biopic.

Everything about Christopher Nolan's latest movie is massive. The level of shock and awe is breathtaking, but it can also be taxing.

Christopher Nolan's newest film is jarring and memorable, an ode to creation and consequence.

[Nolan] captures that theoretical aspect of Oppenheimer on the screen in very personal moments... that energy, that swirl of passion in the unknown it's all there, and it is phenomenal to watch.

As he corrals the world's scientists to follow behind him Robert Oppenheimer is magnetic, more akin to a cult leader than a lowly whitecoat.

Every scene feels like a cataclysm waiting to happen, fitting for a film that builds, step-by-step, to the creation of a cataclysm machine. Oppenheimer both summons awe for what it took to build the bomb and for the changes it wrought.

This is a complex look at a complicated man, but Oppenheimer unequivocally establishes that this is a story worth telling -- and that Nolan was the perfect filmmaker to do it.

What he [Nolan] has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss. [Full review in Spanish]