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Christopher Nolan

  1. chat room
    OPPENHEIMER
    Oscar Winner Jennifer Lame on the Hardest Scenes to Edit Into OppenheimerThe Best Editing winner talked to us last summer about what almost got cut from Christopher Nolan’s high-wire epic, and the obsessions that fueled it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. movie review
    Oppenheimer Is a Tragedy of Operatic GrandeurChristopher Nolan’s movie about the invention of the atomic bomb is almost too big to wrap your head around.
    By Alison Willmore
  3. oscars 2024
    How Oppenheimer Won Best PictureFor years, you had to be a lovable underdog to win Best Picture. But Oppenheimer cruised through as the front-runner all season — here’s how.
    By Nate Jones
  4. behind the scenes
    OPPENHEIMER
    How Christopher Nolan Crafted the World of OppenheimerThe newly minted Best Picture winner plays out across the landscapes of Los Alamos and Cillian Murphy’s face
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. vulture lists
    All 12 Christopher Nolan Movies, RankedWhich of the Oscar-winning director’s films are masterpieces and which are merely near-masterpieces?
    By Bilge Ebiri
  6. interview
    OPPENHEIMER
    How Cillian Murphy Found His ‘Resting Physicist’s Face’“My job is to convince the audience that Oppenheimer knows what he’s doing. I really spent most of the time working on his psychology.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. awards season
    The Simple Life and Smash Alum Wins Editing OscarChris Nolan does have taste …
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. interview
    OPPENHEIMER
    It Sure Feels Good to Have Robert Downey Jr. Onscreen AgainDowney wanted a new experience, and he got it in his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. my academy awards
    All 53 of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies and Shorts, RankedThe feature-length and short films that were nominated in 2024 are, in the aggregate, the most impressive (to me) in years.
    By Joe Reid
  10. it’s a new world
    OPPENHEIMER
    How to Stream OppenheimerNow’s the perfect time to watch the Oscar-nominated film.
    By Savannah Salazar
  11. including her son?
    A Brief Defense of Tenet’s Worst LineElizabeth Debicki uttering “including my son” gets at the root of Christopher Nolan’s whole ethos.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  12. does your head hurt yet?
    A Backward Movie for an Upside-Down WorldRevisiting Tenet in the wake of Oppenheimer shows us how Christopher Nolan has long been fixated on humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. posterity
    A Beat-by-Beat Explanation of What Happens in TenetTurns out the plot of Christopher Nolan’s movie is also a mystery to people who have seen it.
    By Nate Jones
  14. backstories
    Why Christopher Nolan Fell in Love With Bulky, Expensive, Way-Too-Loud FilmImax used to be considered odd. The Oppenheimer director can’t resist it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  15. awards season
    Christopher Nolan Takes Home the Big Prize at the DGA AwardsHere’s the full list of winners from the ceremony, which was once again hosted by Judd Apatow.
    By Tom Smyth
  16. sundance 2024
    Robert Downey Jr. Told Sundance About Christopher Nolan’s Bathroom Habits“11 a.m. and 6 p.m. sharp. Diuretics are his kryptonite.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  17. time is a flat circle
    A Peloton Instructor Got the Tenet Discourse Spinning AgainShe did like Oppenheimer, though.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  18. vulture lists
    Every DC Comics Movie, RankedFrom the Christopher Reeve era to the Snyder Cut and this week’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  19. oscar futures
    Oppenheimer Could Dominate the Oscars. Barbie Could Win Best Picture.Oppenheimer is primed to be a major awards contender. But the films that win the top Oscar these days look more like Barbie.
    By Nate Jones
  20. barbenheimer
    Which Barbie Is Oppenheimer?Barbie can be anything, including a scientist who stole the world’s innocence by developing a harbinger of the apocalypse.
    By Jason P. Frank and Rebecca Alter
  21. q&a
    The One Thing Missing From Oppenheimer’s ScoreLudwig Göransson strategically avoided an entire instrument family and built one of the most beautifully agitating movie soundtracks.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  22. barbenheimer
    Benny Safdie Is Really Proud of How His Eyebrows ‘Shined’ in Oppenheimer“Every once in a while I have a straggler that I’ll just pluck out. But Chris said, ‘Don’t do that. Let’s just let it go crazy.’”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  23. endings
    The Hidden ‘Inception’ Near the End of InceptionAn idea that might have been planted within Cobb’s subconscious.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  24. foreign interests
    Who Are the Japanese in Oppenheimer?Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb” has trouble defining the enemy who bore the brunt of that terrible weapon.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  25. explainers
    OPPENHEIMER
    What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Oppenheimer?Even this most rigorous of biopics must at times employ shortcuts and shorthand.
    By Nate Jones
  26. at the box office
    I Am Become Barbenheimer, Destroyer of Box Office RecordsBarbie and Oppenheimer’s staggering returns seem to signal franchise fatigue — or at least that audiences want alternatives to the same old, same old.
    By Chris Lee
  27. back to the movies
    How Are Movie Theaters Handling Barbenheimer?Here’s to hoping there are Kenough screens for every Barbie wearing a porkpie hat.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  28. character guide
    Who’s Who in Oppenheimer: A Guide to 36 Scientists, Soldiers, and RedsOppenheimer is a cavalcade of white men in suits exchanging rapid-fire dialogue about physics and war. Here’s how to tell them apart.
    By Siddhant Adlakha
  29. endings
    OPPENHEIMER
    The ‘Troubling Reverberations’ at the End of Oppenheimer, ExplainedIt’s the most shattering ending of anything Christopher Nolan has made, and maybe even of any studio blockbuster in recent memory.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  30. this is my hair i don’t wear wigs
    Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan Wage War (Against Wigs)This Barbie is all natural.
    By Jason P. Frank
  31. vulture lists
    The 11 Biggest Box-Office BombsWhere does Oppenheimer rank?
    By James Grebey
  32. is pink the new black?
    Barbenheimer Memes Are Blowing UpIs it a war or an alliance?
    By Jason P. Frank
  33. here we go again
    The Battle of Barbenheimer Is Mamma Mia! vs. The Dark Knight All Over AgainVeterans of the last time a long, brooding thriller by Christopher Nolan faced off against a colorful, pop-tune-heavy romp weigh in on the parallels.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  34. vulture bets
    Which Supporting Characters in Oppenheimer Will Die of Radiation Poisoning?Let’s go down the 70-person cast list one by one until we find the most likely suspects.
    By Nate Jones
  35. double feature
    The Dawn of BarbenheimerWhen it comes to Barbie vs. Oppenheimer at the box office, the film girlies are Team Cinema.
    By Jason P. Frank
  36. smooches
    Christopher Nolan Says Oppenheimer Is ‘Kissing Three Hours’Just giving the three-hour mark a teeny-tiny smooch.
    By Bethy Squires
  37. muses
    For Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy, It Was Love at First Sight“I remember being struck by your presence, literally from that one photograph.”
    By Bethy Squires
  38. nolan news
    Christopher Nolan Is Going Nuclear With OppenheimerThe Manhattan Project Hollywood project starring Cillian Murphy.
    By Zoe Guy
  39. cinemacon 2023
    Nolan Says Oppenheimer Is About ‘the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived’Christopher Nolan previewed footage from his latest at CinemaCon, featuring Matt Damon in a mustache and Robert Downey Jr. talking about spies.
    By Chris Lee
  40. trailer mix
    Cillian Murphy Is So Stressed Out in the New Oppenheimer TrailerInventing humanity’s destruction is stressful work.
    By Bethy Squires
  41. boom! clap!
    Christopher Nolan Makes His Nuclear Bombs the Old-fashioned WayFor the Trinity test in Oppenheimer, the director used practical effects over CGI.
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. trailer mix
    Cillian Murphy Sets the Earth Ablaze in Christopher Nolan’s OppenheimerBehold the first teaser for Nolan’s nuclear epic.
    By Zoe Guy
  43. trust fund vigilantes
    Christian Bale Has His Batsuit on StandbyChristian Bale promised to return as Batman if Christopher Nolan calls.
    By Zoe Guy
  44. nolan news
    Robert Downey Jr. to Star in His First Christopher Nolan FilmThis also marks the first Universal Pictures film for Nolan.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  45. casting
    Christopher Nolan Casts Cillian Murphy As Oppenheimer Reuniting in theaters July 2023.
    By Zoë Haylock
  46. industry goss
    Christopher Nolan Takes His Next Film to Universal PicturesFriendship over with Warner Bros., now Universal is his best friend.
    By Zoe Haylock
  47. alternate timelines
    What If Darren Aronofsky Made Batman Instead of Nolan?What happens in the mirror universe where one 30-something indie director prevails over the other? It gets dark(er).
    By Joe Reid
  48. the streaming wars
    Christopher Nolan Doubles Down on Warner Bros. Criticism“It’s a question of partnership and collaboration.”
    By Charu Sinha
  49. the streaming wars
    Christopher Nolan Shocked by WB’s Deal With ‘Worst Streaming Service’ HBO Max“It’s very, very, very, very messy. A real bait and switch.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  50. box office
    Christopher Nolan Is ‘Thrilled’ With Tenet’s Box Office, ActuallyThe update you wanted and needed.
    By Hunter Harris
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