The most visually-stunning masterclass of the year has been released on home video, and if there’s one film you pick up this holiday season, it’s Oppenheimer.

Director Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus is a poised, brilliantly-executed vision of haunting memories, guilt and the realization that a man’s greatest singular work may be a blow to humanity itself.

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s bullet point autobiography is well-known, but this three-hour epic develops his personal and professional achievements, right up to the launch of the atomic bomb and the fallout afterwards.

It’s the best movie of the year so far, anchored by a conflicted performance by Cillian Murphy. Emily Blunt gives a career-best turn as his wife Kitty, and Robert Downey Jr. climbs out of the post-Avengers slump to deliver what may be an Oscar-winning turn as Lewis Strauss, adversary and former government worker.

With Matt Damon, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, Scott Grimes, Tony Goldwyn, Kenneth Branagh and more, this is a who’s who of Hollywood’s A-list men and up-and-comers.

Nolan is a passionate director, best-known for The Dark Knight trilogy, but Oppenheimer is a film you simply couldn’t forget if you tried.

It’s so dizzying and grandiose you won’t feel like you’ve been in your seat three hours, and it’s the film to beat in 2023.

5/5 Stars