Oppenheimer, the movie, promises to transport movie go-ers behind the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

The performance by Cillian Murphy brings to life the brilliant physicist, while Emily Blunt portrays Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, his loyal wife and a well-known biologist and botanist.

The story takes place against the backdrop of World War II, as General Leslie Groves Jr., played by the Matt Damon, who’s in charge of the covert Manhattan Project, enlists Oppenheimer to develop the atomic bomb....