10 Recent Movies So Good You Overlook Huge Flaws

This case is an epitomizing example of an awful subplot lurking within an otherwise stellar movie.

Oppenheimer is among the greatest Best Picture winners to date, and it's a stunning, explosively powerful historical epic with one of the greatest ensemble casts in recent memory... but one actor was badly let down by the film, and that actor, unfortunately, was the brilliant Florence Pugh. 

In the film, Pugh plays Jean Tatlock, a young Communist who had an on-off affair with J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and eventually died by an apparent suicide. Tatlock needed to be included in the feature somehow, as her association with Oppenheimer was important (especially as this was used as evidence of his supposed Communist associations), but this subplot was chronically underdeveloped in the final film, with Pugh spending most of her screen time sitting in the nude. 

Oppenheimer's reaction to her off-screen death is also rushed, and although he imagines her being assassinated, this is never expanded upon. Pugh does her best with the little time she's given, but the movie wasted her all the same. In this three-hour epic, there was definitely room to expand Tatlock's character and make her feel more connected to the rest of the story.