Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Is Three Hours Long

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will mark a number of firsts within the director’s lengthy profession. For one factor, It’s his first R-rated film in a long time. (His final R-rated movie was Insomnia, from 2002. Everything he’s made since, together with all three Batman movies and Dunkirk, had been rated PG-13.)

Maybe extra notably for people who get antsy at lengthy motion pictures: Oppenheimer, a biopic of the scientist who spearheaded America’s efforts to construct the primary nuclear bomb throughout World War II, clocks in proper at three hours, in response to Fandango’s Erik Davis. That makes it the longest movie of Nolan’s profession thus far.

Here are the entire runtimes of all of Nolan’s motion pictures to date. If you graphed it, the consequence would just about appear like a straight line sloping upward, with the notable exception of Dunkirk. That one was solely about an hour and 45 minutes lengthy.

• Following: 70 minutes
• Memento: 113 minutes
• Insomnia: 118 minutes
• Batman Begins: 140 minutes
• The Prestige: 130 minutes
• The Dark Knight: 152 minutes
• Inception: 148 minutes
• The Dark Knight Rises: 165 minutes
• Interstellar: 169 minutes
• Dunkirk: 106 minutes
• Tenet: 150 minutes

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While Nolan’s been a mainstay of summer time film season for fairly a very long time now, Oppenheimer will certainly be an uncommon summer time blockbuster. Forget the truth that it’s an R-rated, three-hour film. It’s additionally a critical biography of a physicist, chronicling the creation of the primary atomic bomb. I imply, summer time motion pictures love blowing stuff up, however this isn’t fairly the identical factor.

Oppenheimer does at the very least have the form of star energy you affiliate with a blockbuster, together with Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, and Robert Downey Jr. Oppenheimer is scheduled to open in theaters on July 21.