The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 16 - ‘Oppenheimer’

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sean and Amanda return to continue their yearlong project of listing the 25 best movies of the 21st century so far. Today, they discuss Christoper Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’, starring Cillian Murphy, one of the most iconic biopics of all time. They talk about their contentious decision to choose this film as the official Nolan selection for the list, wonder whether this will end up as the culmination of his career, and hypothesize what the film’s legacy will ultimately be. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producer: Jack Sanders THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY. ORDER NOW | STARBUCKS.COM/MENU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Starbucks.
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0:48.5	Music for a limited time only, your summer berry refresher is ready at Starbucks. I'm Sean Fennessey.
0:49.6	I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:50.5	And this is 25 for 25, a big picture special conversation show about Oppenheimer, and now I am become death destroyer of worlds.
0:59.5	Okay, Amanda.
1:00.1	Mm-hmm.
1:00.9	Here we are.
1:02.1	Oppenheimer.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.1	This is the 12th feature film from Christopher Nolan.
1:05.9	Now, Christopher Nolan, some would say, I'm not sure if I would say, maybe I would say, is the 21st century
1:13.2	filmmaker, the most successful and significant maker of movies in this century. Do you agree
1:19.5	with that suggestion? Certainly of movie culture, as we know it now, and as we have been
1:27.4	marveling that it, you know, it has died we have been marveling that it you know it has died many
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