Christopher Nolan is not the type of filmmaker to make directly introspective works.
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The Prestige (2006)
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The Usual Suspects (1996)
Has there ever been a movie made more interesting by its final five minutes than The Usual Suspects?
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Rudy (1993)
I grew up in a Notre Dame household.
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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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Aladdin (1992)
There’s an interesting case to be made that Aladdin is the most influential non-CGI animated picture of the last 50 years.
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Spider-Man 2 (2004)
I might be biased because it came out a few days after my 16th birthday, but Spider-Man 2 is perhaps my favorite popcorn movie of the 21st-century
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Jurassic Park (1993)
I’m going to open this review discussing some of the flaws of Jurassic Park — sorry, 17-year-old me; Jurassic Park does indeed have flaws
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.
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Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Dumb and Dumber is a comedy where many of the broadest, best-known gags have lost their luster, but the the stuff on the fringes absolutely slays me.