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Not to sound like one of those super-cool hipsters, but I’ve been a Christopher Nolan fan since Memento](Memento (2001) - Movie | Moviefone), which I thought was the best film of 2001 and maybe the whole decade. You people who didn’t start loving him until he made some Batman movies … well, I’m better than you, is my point.
Insomnia](Insomnia (2002) - Movie | Moviefone), The Prestige](The Prestige (2006) - Movie | Moviefone), and the Batman films were all worthy followups, but it’s with Inception](Inception (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) that Nolan re-achieves artistic greatness. Like Memento, it’s a fascinatingly complex story about memory, perception, and the untrustworthiness of our own minds. It’s also extremely inventive and entertaining; highly intelligent but not baffling or inaccessible. Like the other great film of the summer, Toy Story 3](Toy Story 3 (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), it wins points for trying to convey difficult, ambitious themes, and even more points for actually succeeding. Many films try to do a lot less than this and still don’t meet their goals.