Oppenheimer’s Rotten Tomatoes Bucks A 21-Year-Old Nolan Trend, Is Secretly Even Better Than It Looks

While Oppenheimer’s Rotten Tomatoes score was already impressive, the critical consensus recently ended a decades-long trend for director Christopher Nolan’s movies. Oppenheimer’s impressive opening weekend proves that audiences wanted to see Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the famous physicist, and the movie’s rapturous critical recreation proves there was good reason for its success. Oppenheimer received almost universally positive reviews, with some critics calling it the best movie of 2023 so far. Cillian Murphy’s performance in the title role has been called career-best work, while Nolan’s direction has been praised for both its invention and its measured reserve.