OPPENHEIMER
(source: Universal) Personally speaking, it’s both odd and worrying to realize that I’ve enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s last two films much more on a television than on a (very) big screen. My initial response to Dunkirk was that it was over-produced, and that Tenet just seemed at times arrogant. I reconciled myself with both those films in the comfort of my own home but it led to me briefly wondering: am I in fact excited for a new Nolan cinema experience? Yes. Of course I am. Even before the film, in the hours leading up to the evening of July 21 st , I found myself near giddy at the three hours yet to come – and then, I watched it. Long story short, I don’t regret prioritizing this over Barbie (at least, not yet). In an opening weekend that will in years to come be spoken about like a cultural pilgrimage, Oppenheimer is debuting alongside Greta Gerwig’s subversive, mega-pink beacon of hope. It therefore seems a little wasteful to label THIS film as maximalist. Maybe, it’s more a