Up until this week, Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer had the most lucrative opening weekend of any biopic in history. There's plenty to debate about the way Oppenheimer told the story of its subject, and the film's decision to omit any depiction of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains controversial. But Oppenheimer represents an honest attempt to reckon with the legacy of a subject who caused a great deal of suffering in the world. It earned great reviews, won the Oscar for Best Picture, and became a cultural phenomenon, especially coming out on the same weekend as Barbie. This past weekend, the Oppenheimer record was shattered by the Michael Jackson movie Michael, a biopic that pointedly refuses to reckon with anything negative that Jackson might've ever done in his life.
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