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‘Barbie’ + ‘Oppenheimer,’ a.k.a. Barbenheimer, Is Upon Us!

The Big Picture

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Killian Murphy's Oppenheimer

I was incredibly bored during the third hour. Incredibly bored. And that has a little bit to do, I think, with the way that it cuts everything together and it loses momentum. The phrase I thought of while watching it was that it is a portal and not a portrait. It's being used as a vehicle to think about these big ideas of infamy, justice, pride of creation, destruction, responsibility. There are a lot of huge, literally the most, as Matt Damon's character, Colonel Grove says in the film, the most important fucking thing in the world.

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