
The sanest move seems to be dark before light, or as one Barbenheimist told The Times by email, “My friends and I in Chicago are spending our day at the Alamo Drafthouse and seeing the films the way the Lord herself intended: ‘Oppenheimer’ at 10 a.m. “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” two of the summer’s biggest films, premiered yesterday, and, for what feels like 100 years now, breathless meme-makers and discriminating cineastes alike have been chattering about the correct order in which to see the movies back to back. A morning screening is best, so you can get some fresh air, some sustenance other than Milk Duds, clear your head before Greta Gerwig’s “ live-action, you-go-girl fantasia,” “Barbie,” the second half of the double feature known, for better or worse, as “Barbenheimer.” Start the day with the darker fare: Christopher Nolan’s moody “Oppenheimer,” about the physicist who ran the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb.
