All 10 Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, From ‘Memento’ to ‘Dunkirk’ (Photos)
Director Christopher Nolan has become well-known for blasting audiences’ brains with mind-bending, over-the-top spectacles.
The movie gets some of Robin Williams’ best dramatic work of his career as the primary suspect in the murder of a teenage girl in an Alaska town.
The thief in the film, who shares a name with “Inception’s” Cobb, has philosophies on creating chaos that are a dry run for The Joker’s craving to watch the world burn.
“Inception” is Nolan’s “Vertigo,” a movie that combines everything that has defined his career into one ambitious opus.
The more serious take on the grounded the hero and Nolan’s focus on a man figuring out how to be a symbol, rather than just punching bad guys, helped make “Batman Begins” a template for superhero movies hoping to be a little more realistic and a little less cartoonish.
The movie that first really started to tip people off to Nolan is a noir-esque mystery told in reverse, with its detective unable to form new short-term memories.
The movie’s construction keeps the audience as confused as protagonist Leonard, but once it all comes together, the frightening story of how people manipulate each other, and themselves, does a fantastic job of blowing minds in the best way.
Despite being enormous and running three tales in parallel with some non-linear storytelling, the minimal use of dialogue and powerful performances makes “Dunkirk” incredibly tense and human.