Every Christopher Nolan Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Christopher Nolan's recent hit Oppenheimer is the culmination of an entire career's work, packaging together everything that's made him tick over the years into an epic, intimate, frustrating drama about one of history's most important figures.

Telling the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb (played here by an exemplary Cillian Murphy), the bracing thriller documents not just how the bomb was made -- was it Oppenheimer's brilliance? Was he lucky? Are there bigger people to blame? -- but how the man behind it sold his soul for its creation.

It loses some steam in the last act, but only because the first two hours are so flawless at dissecting Oppenheimer's life. Nolan brings to life some of the most haunting imagery of his career to explore what made this man work, and hammer home the horrifying significance of his achievements.

Nolan's history of exploring the actions of deeply flawed men led him here, and the results are divine, from its stomach-curling atom bomb test sequence to its astoundingly packed cast (Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie and many more matching Murphy scene-for-scene). It's a blast.