Director: Christopher Nolan

Many a millennial has used Christopher Nolan as a gateway drug to cinephilia.

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Oppenheimer (2023)

The first two hours of Oppenheimer are pretty close to exactly what you’d expect of a Christopher Nolan-helmed biopic.

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Following up The Dark Knight is no easy task, especially when, by most accounts, Christopher Nolan had to be talked into making a third Batman movie.

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The Prestige (2006)

Christopher Nolan is not the type of filmmaker to make directly introspective works.

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The Dark Knight (2008)

When I was in college I took a course on the history of crime films.

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Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins remains one of the great comic book movies because Christopher Nolan captures a really compelling tug of war between two competing forces: gritty realism and operatic mythmaking.

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Memento (2000)

Memento is a movie almost entirely about its plot structure, which is certainly clever and memorable.