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Running Time: 180 minutes
This feature film from Universal Pictures opens exclusively at theaters on Friday, July 21.
Every so often, an event occurs that changes the course of history. The Manhattan Project, which ultimately resulted in the development of nuclear weapons, certainly qualifies. Oppenheimer, the newest film from writer/director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet), tells this story through the eyes of the atomic bomb’s creator, focusing on the intense work and toll that it ultimately took on his life.
In comparison to some of the filmmaker’s epic thrillers, this feels like a more low-key drama...