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Oppenheimer

“Oppenheimer is a movie so sprawling it’s difficult to contend with. It’s rich, uncompromising, and borderline unwieldy, but more than anything, it’s a tragedy of operatic grandeur despite so many of its scenes consisting of men talking in rooms — conference rooms, Senate chambers, university classrooms, and emptied-out restaurants, all the prosaic places where the fate of the earth gets hashed out.” Read the rest of Alison Willmore’s review here.

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  6. oscar futures
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  7. capitalism
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  10. at the box office
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  11. apologies
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  12. chat room
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  13. oscar futures
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  14. barbenheimer
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  15. q&a
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  18. chat room
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  19. explainers
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  20. at the box office
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  25. character guide
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  26. endings
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  27. solidarity
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  30. movie review
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  35. vulture bets
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