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  Certificate: 15 Running time: 180 minutes  Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Benny Safdie, Dane DeHaan Directed by: Christopher Nolan The story: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is tasked with designing the ultimate weapon, but will this new weapon stop the war or bring about humankind’s demise? The verdict: It’s probably a reasonably safe bet to assume that any Christopher Nolan film is going to be big. Big star power, big visuals, big sound and big interest from cinema goers. Oppenheimer falls into all those categories and perhaps more. For many this will be the film that they declare as Nolan’s magnum opus and that’s not an outlandish statement by any means. As biopics go, this is a fascinating one and that’s before you have even applied any of Nolan’s mastery to the story. Cillian Murphy is a fantastic choice as the titular character. Oppenheimer shows the man himself as both a scientist and in his pers...