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Where to stream the Oscars frontrunner films... and read our critics' reviews to find out which are worth watching!
From jaw-dropping Oppenheimer to epic Napoleon and Saltburn's exuberant satire on class, our reviewers give their verdicts on the movies set to make waves at the Academy Awards.
I can’t speak for the book but on screen the story really has four components: the race to create atomic weapons ahead of the Nazis; the attempt to stop nuclear secrets falling into the hands of America’s wartime ally, Soviet Russia; the post-war campaign to besmirch Oppenheimer for his own alleged Communist affiliations; and finally, his messy private life. But everywhere you look there are terrific actors at the top of their game, including Matt Damon as the army officer who recruits Oppenheimer to set up Los Alamos, Gary Oldman (as President Truman), Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Casey Affleck and, perfectly convincing as Albert Einstein, dear old Tom Conti. He is an absolute delight as Dahl’s big friendly giant; imagine, if you possibly can, an oversized version of the humble gardener played by Paul Whitehouse in The Fast Show’s Ted and Ralph sketches, with the convoluted speech patterns of John Prescott on a really bad day.
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