Christopher Nolan’s film is full of spooky action, but it left me at a distance.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” was the first thought of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist whose leadership of the Manhattan Project saddled him with the unwelcome title of “father of the atomic bomb,” as he observed the weapon’s 1945 test explosion in the desert of New Mexico.
is an impressive “dudes rock” lineup, with a seemingly endless parade of name actors showing up in supporting roles: Kenneth Branagh as the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, Josh Hartnett as the Nobel Prize–winning scientist Ernest Lawrence, Benny Safdie as Oppenheimer’s collaborator and eventual betrayer Edward Teller, and Tom Conti, appearing principally in two scenes near the beginning and end of the movie, as an elderly, philosophical Albert Einstein.
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