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Oppenheimer
NETFLIX
PREMIERE BIOPIC Part first-person psychological drama, part historical enquiry, part courtroom drama, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s film is a colossal achievement: an old-school epic executed with blockbuster verve. We first see J Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) in the rain, gaunt and haunted. Swiftly, periods of his life criss-cross. Between his student years and the 1950s when he’s accused of Communist sympathies, his ambition to bring peace to wartime with the atom bomb changes the world. Murphy’s never been better, but there are stand-out turns, too, from Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Florence Pugh. Dir: Christopher Nolan 2022, 15, 180min
FRIDAY
Babylon
FILM4 9.30PM - 1.15AM
PREMIERE PERIOD DRAMA Over the course of three lurid, frenetic hours, writer-director Damien Chazelle’s wild opus follows starlet Margot…
