Reviews: 'Oppenheimer,' 'Barbie,' other Oscars 2024 nominees

MANILA, Philippines — The nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards have been unveiled, led by Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," a film about the titular father of the atomic bomb.

Following "Oppenheimer" were "Poor Things," starring Emma Stone, and Martin Scorsese's crime epic "Killers of the Flower Moon."

"Barbie," "Maestro," "American Fiction," "The Holdovers," "Anatomy of a Fall," "The Zone of Interest" and "Past Lives" round up the nominees for Best Picture.

Several of these films and other movies nominated at the Oscars have screened in the Philippines throughout 2023, if not via streaming platforms like Netflix (which banners "Maestro").

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Here is a compilation of Philstar.com's reviews for some of this year's Oscar nominees:

Nolan's film about J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most-nominated film of this year's Academy Awards, up for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Nolan, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy as the titular character.

The movie's other nominations are Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Supporting Actress for Emily Blunt, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

The director's creative choices work so splendidly on a physical level that they blend into the film's themes of a man dealing with the results of his consquences, often to the destruction of one life and thousands others.

The film's three-hour runtime could drain some viewers, but Nolan and his team did everything to make every minute count, especially as Oppenheimer — the film and the character — slowly unravels.

With his latest Best Director nomination, Scorsese is now the most-nominated living director at the Oscars, surpassing colleague Steven Spielberg.

"Killers of the Flower Moon" circles around the mysterious murders of Osage Nation members in Oklahoma shortly after oil was discovered on the land tribes settled on.

Apart from Best Picture and Best Director, the film is also up for Best Actress for Lily Gladstone (a first for a Native American), Best Supporting Actor for Robert