My Top 5 Christopher Nolan Movies
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Patrick Bromley shares his top 5 favorite movies by Christopher Nolan amidst the ongoing debate about the director's impact on the film community.
by Patrick Bromley Subject to change at any moment. Including now. And now. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is in theaters today! To celebrate, I thought I would share my favorites of his movies. For some reason, Nolan has become a controversial figure in the film community, with everyone seemingly divided between Toxic Bros who worship him and the Hipsters who are too cool for his brand of squareness. I would like to think I'm neither (and so are many others who may like or dislike his work for Totally Valid Reasons), but I do realize he's become one of my guys. My Top 5 could include most to any of his movies, but here's where it stands today. 1. Inception (2010) Still my favorite of all Christopher Nolan's movies and maybe my favorite movie of the first decade of the 2000s. I won't bother to recount the cast or the plot -- it's a dream heist -- but will instead say that this became one of my favorite movies after my first viewing on opening night 2010 and then only got better on repeat watches. Then I read a piece from a former critic who described the movie as Nolan's 8 1/2 and explained that the movie itself was all about the filmmaking process. Leonardo…
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