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1 day ago · From Following to The Dark Knight to Dunkirk to Oppenheimer, we rank the influential director's movies by score!
In July 2023, Nolan released his highly acclaimed biographic drama Oppenheimer (2023) starring Nolan's frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy- in the lead role for the first time in a Nolan film. The movie was a cultural phenomenon that on top of grossing almost 1 billion dollars at the Worldwide Box office, also swept the 2023/2024 award-season ...
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- The Prestige (2006) The Prestige is one of the great modern films, and has the best script of any Nolan film. Nolan found what worked so well with Memento and took that electricity a step further.
- Memento (2000) Memento changed cinema forever, and shaped Nolan’s storytelling style. The film took full advantage of the medium in a way we had never seen before, and in many respects still have yet to be capitalized upon.
- Dunkirk (2017) Christopher Nolan mentioned that he intentionally built Dunkirk to play like the third act of any other war film, just stretched out across 106 minutes.
- The Dark Knight (2008) Now I know what you’re thinking… How could The Dark Knight not make it into the top three? But before you hurl your collectable Batman sippy-cup into that mint condition Gotham lunch box (complete with Victor Fries ice pack) remember this
- The Dark Knight (2008) Because you’re never going to watch Oppenheimer as many times as you’ve probably already watched The Dark Knight — as the clown says, it’s “just too much fun.”
- Oppenheimer (2023) Oppenheimer is too long, overly chatty and its final act goes from fate-of-the-world stakes to men sitting around tables arguing over a security clearance (imagine if Batman defeated the Scarecrow in Batman Begins and then spent another 40 minutes discussing how to best fix Gotham City’s damaged monorail system).
- The Prestige (2006) The Prestige is a marvelous mystery based on Christopher Priest’s novel about dueling turn-of-the-century obsessive magicians with terrific performances by a dogmatic Bale, a searing Hugh Jackman (“You don’t know?!
- Batman Begins (2005) The first hour of Batman Begins is a fantastic launch to not only a grown-up Dark Knight trilogy but also a re-imagining of what superhero movies can be, if they’re treated like larger-than-life crime dramas with practical effects instead of quip-filled, save-the-world, CGI-fueled dramedies.
- 12 'Tenet'
- 11 'Interstellar'
- 10 'The Prestige'
- 9 'Following'
- 8 'Batman Begins'
- 7 'Inception'
- 6 'The Dark Knight Rises'
- 5 'Insomnia'
- 4 'Dunkirk'
- 3 'Memento'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 69%
An ambitious film by Nolan is the sci-fi action thriller, Tenet, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson. In Tenet, Nolan offers a unique take on time travel and time manipulation, a recurring theme in several movies of his. However, this film seems to be his most confusingbecause you spend so much time trying to understand the reverse time travel that the plot gets a little lost in the background. Despite a concept that may be confusing to some, the fight choreography and visuals...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 73%
The most visually breathtaking sci-fi film in Nolan's catalog, Interstellar is a unique space science fiction adventure thriller that can best be described as "an experience." It follows Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), an ex-astronaut turned farmer sent to find another planet to save humanity. In this film, Nolan shows a different use of time passage between Coop, who ventures further into space, and his daughter Murph, who remains on Earth, determined to finish an unsolved equation to help her...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76%
On the surface, The Prestige is a movie based on two rival magicians, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), who perform the same trick while equally trying to sabotage the other (or learn each other's secrets). The plot of The Prestige unravels into an exciting and captivating psychological thriller. David Bowie is even in the film as the famed inventorNikola Tesla! The movie is full of misdirects and subtle hints to tease the viewer along the film's plot, like lead...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Nolan's debut feature was directed, written, and even edited by Nolan himself, designed to be created in the least expensive way possible.The film clocks in at just over an hour long, by far his shortest film. It follows a struggling writer who tags along with a thief on a series of burglaries to gain inspiration for his novel. Cobb, the thief in this story, also happens (definitely not a coincidence) to be the name ofLeonardo DiCaprio's character in Inception, who is also a thief, albeit a v...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Batman had been treading on thin ice after the disaster that was Batman & Robinin 1997. But eight years after, Nolan was tagged to revive the Caped Crusader. Batman Beginskicks off a trilogy that fully captures the iconic hero as the dark, brooding man that he is in a captivatingly exciting way. The film is applauded for its practical effects, traditional stunts, use of miniatures, and choreography, a trait that was carried through the entire trilogy. Liam Neesonplays Ra's al Ghul, the leader...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%
Perhaps Nolan's most complex movie and one whose ambiguous ending is still heavily discussed today.Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the leader of a band of thieves, but the twist is that they steal information from the subconscious of their targets without them ever even knowing. Nolan's use of time in this film is epic. Every subconscious has layers, and each time you go deeper, time is slowed on the outside. Cobb admits to having spent 50 years with his wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), while they w...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%
The climactic conclusion to the legendary The Dark Knight Trilogy that spanned seven years, this movie features a Batman that is beaten and broken from the events of The Dark Knight, and he has gone into hiding for eight years. Bane (Tom Hardy), an excommunicated member of the League of Shadows, emerges and wreaks havoc on Gotham, holding it hostage with bombs placed throughout the city. Notably, the most memorable thing about this movie is Hardy's performance as Bane, as it grounds the more...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
The only Christopher Nolan film where he did not write or co-write the screenplay was done byHillary Seltz. Insomnia follows two Los Angeles detectives investigating a homicide in Alaska. After accidentally killing his partner, Dormer (Al Pacino) is investigated as he battles his insomnia cocktail of guilt and the constant daylight of Alaska. While Al Pacino's presence in the movie is typical for his brand as an actor, it's one of the few movies where famed comedian Robin Williams shows his e...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
Nolan lends his hand to his first true war film Dunkirk. It is also his first movie since his debut film that does not have a bona fide movie star at the helm of it (although Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Cainehave minor roles). It chronicles the journey of several Allied soldiers as they are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, France, as German forces attempt to wipe them out. The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director and is the highest-grossing World War II film, ear...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Certainly Nolan's most complex and confusing film, Mementois a mind-boggling film presented with a fractured narrative. Leonard (Guy Pearce) has anterograde amnesia and cannot create new memories after being attacked by two men. This makes the broken narrative, with sequences in black and white (told chronologically) and sequences in color (told reverse chronologically). The audience and Leonard are left to figure out who John G. is, what he has to do with the death of his wife, and how all t...
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Full list. Sir Christopher Edward Nolan CBE (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker. Known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, he is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century.
Dec 29, 2023 · December 29, 2023 @ 6:57 AM. Few filmmakers stoke the kind of loyalty and obsessive deconstruction as Christopher Nolan does. Over 12 films and 25 years, he has made head-spinning, intricately ...
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