Reviews for Oppenheimer
Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly:
Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer's rival for control over postwar nuclear policy, and uses his own considerable acting powers to carve out a sizable portion of the film for himself.
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast:
Oppenheimer draws its figures in vigorous strokes, capturing their hesitancy and certainty, loyalty, and treachery — none better than Strauss, whom a tremendous Downey Jr. transforms into the vilest sort of jealous, vindictive rat.
His Iron Man exoskeleton now finally retired for good, Downey reminds us what a versatile and emotionally intelligent actor he has always been, while playing a character much colder and more calculating than the charming scamps of his youth.
[Downey] clearly relishes playing a haughty, deeply insecure villain.
Downey finally reasserts himself as a generation-defining talent, the reason we ever gave a shit about Tony Stark in the first place.