Is “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan’s best film?
Christopher Nolan’s 12th film has met with mixed reviews in Iran. Some movie lovers consider Oppenheimer to be the best work of this 53-year-old director, and others consider the narrative flow and characterization of the film to be trivial. Therefore, in this short article, we are going to see what place Oppenheimer has in Nolan’s career based on the statistics of Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and IMDb, and what non-Persian-speaking critics say about it.
Charso Press: Christopher Nolan’s 12th film has met with mixed reviews in Iran. Some movie lovers consider Oppenheimer to be the best work of this 53-year-old director, and others consider the narrative flow and characterization of the film to be trivial. Therefore, in this short article, we are going to see, based on the statistics of Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. Oppenheimer What place does it have in Nolan’s career and what do non-Persian-speaking critics say about it?
The best movie in Metacritic Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk” is 94 out of 100, followed by Oppenheimer and “The Dark Knight” with 88 and 84 respectively. “Memento” and “The Dark Knight Rises” also took the fourth and fifth places. 98% of the reviews registered for Dunkirk are generally positive, and the level of satisfaction of critics with Oppenheimer in this database is 97%, and no negative reviews have been registered for it, which shows that the critics of the world’s reputable media were satisfied with watching the film; It is interesting to know that the satisfaction rate of critics on Metacritic for the acclaimed movie “Interstellar” is 76%.
Peter Bradshaw The well-known critic of the Guardian wrote in part of his note for this film: “It is a big explosion and no one could have brought it to the screen better or more awesome than Nolan. He has done this without turning the film into an action film with heavy presence of stuntmen. Bradshaw adds: “For all his boldness and ambition, he never solves the problem of his ambiguity; He fills this long drama with the agony of the genius Oppenheimer but refuses to show what happened to the Japanese and the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cillian Murphy has a very eerie resemblance to Oppenheimer, who is very good at portraying the feeling of loneliness and emotional imprisonment. “The movie has its flaws, but overall it’s amazing.” Peter Reiner of the Christian Science Monitor, who liked the film less, described Oppenheimer as: “Oppenheimer, the new movie Christopher Nolan Starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, it doesn’t pretend to be a simple biopic. Rather, it is made to be the biography of all biographical films.”
As mentioned above, Oppenheimer Nolan’s second film in Metacritic’s opinion is; That is, it is not his best work in this database, but it stands above his most popular films. The difference between the views of Iranian moviegoers and Westerners, and especially American critics, probably originates from the fact that each of them played a different role in World War II and have a different relationship with the creation of the atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer.
In the Rotten Tomatoes database, 471 reviews have been registered for the movie, of which 93% are positive. More than 10,000 users of Rotten Tomatoes have also voted for Oppenheimer, whose total opinion shows a remarkable score of 91 out of 100, so that we can again conclude that the difference in the opinion of Iranians towards a biographical work about the creator of the atomic bomb with moviegoers in other countries The West is the main reason for these very different feedbacks.
The films Memento and The Dark Knight with a score of 94 out of 100 are in the first and second positions of the best works, respectively. Christopher Nolan They are placed in Rotten Tomatoes and Oppenheimer appears after them. Dunkirk and “Insomnia” have also taken the next positions. If we want to rank Nolan’s films according to the users of this media, “Batman Begins” stands at the top with a score of 94 out of 100, followed by Memento and The Dark Knight with the same score. Oppenheimer It also ranks seventh with a score of 91 out of 100.
In IMDB, it has a score of 8.5 out of 10, based on nearly half a million votes, and has placed Oppenheimer in fifth place on the list of Christopher Nolan’s best films. In this table, The Dark Knight is ranked first with a score of 9 out of 10, followed by Interstellar and Inception. Insomnia with a score of 7.2 is at the bottom of the list of Nolan’s best films according to cinephiles in IMDb, which is a huge distance from Oppenheimer We can say that it is the newest creation Christopher Nolan Although it is not his best work, it is among his best works, and in the opinion of critics and western cinema lovers, it is much more beloved than some of his films.