Oppenheimer is an unrelenting stream of bombastic vignettes in need of a narrative chain reaction

A man wearing a suit and a porkpie hat surrounded in what appears to either be clouds or flames.

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Image: Universal

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer epic offers a series of visceral glimpses into the life of the father of the atomic bomb but gets too busy to reach its full potential.