A powerful, visually spectacular drama that demands your full concentration, Oppenheimer is unmistakably the work of writer-director Christopher Nolan.

Cillian Murphy is the powerful magnetic centre of the film, the prized uranium at its core.

That the director turned this most devastating of stories into a riveting pop culture phenomenon without ceding one inch on its tragic dimensions is surely an achievement for the ages.

Nolan is a master at delivering feeling through atmosphere.