Could this film bring Sir Anthony Hopkins his third Academy Award, lifting him out of the densely populated people-with-two-Oscars bracket and into the exalted company of the Streeps and the Nicholsons and the Day-Lewises?
In the end Cillian Murphy’s prestige-y, serious-y, cigarette-y, weight loss-y turn as Robert J Oppenheimer will most likely thwart him. And it won’t help that One Life does, with its syrupy strings and somewhat grey palette, undeniably have more than a hint of BBC TV drama about it.
