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If you were paying attention between the weekend’s barbecues, you probably noticed a trickle, and then a flood, of reviews for Christopher Nolan’s Inception](Inception (2010) - Movie | Moviefone). Unsurprisingly, they were uniformly raves – more restrained ones from the trades; full-on geek-outs from the blogs. It’s looking like the quality summer smash everyone hoped for and expected from one of big Hollywood’s smartest and most ambitious filmmakers.
This is a huge relief, since Inception was our last, best hope for a terrific summer flick for adults. I’m as big a fan of *Toy Story 3 *as anyone – bigger than most – but even I was holding out for something a bit meatier. (Splice fit the bill for me, actually, but it obviously didn’t even make a dent in the zeitgeist.) It looks like we have it.
The spoiler-wary will probably want to avoid the full reviews, but below the fold I’ve compiled some excerpts that give you a taste while preserving the film’s secrets. Start the countdown, nerds! We’ve got something to be (unironically) excited about.
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