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Every single Christopher Nolan movie explained in 300 words or less
Every single Christopher Nolan movie explained in 300 words or less
Jacob SarkisianJul 14, 2020, 22:12 IST
Christopher Nolan has directed some of the biggest, most intricate blockbusters of the last decade.Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures
Spoiler alert: this post contains spoilers for every Christopher Nolan movie.
Christopher Nolan's new movie, "Tenet," looks like it could be his most complex and confusing film yet as it flirts with the idea of time travel and time moving backwards.
Nolan's films frequently deal with high concept ideas and are huge, sprawling blockbusters with brains as big as their budget.
In his films, Nolan has explored ideas such as dreams (and dreams within dreams), the tangibility of memory, and how black holes can affect time and space.
This means that sometimes his movies are a little confusing on the first watch — or even on the second or third.
We've gone through every single Christopher Nolan movie to date and explained each film in turn — from "Following" to "Inception" to "Interstellar."
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'Following' (1998) is about a man who stalks people for inspiration.
Starring Jeremy Theobald and Alex Haw.
Momentum Pictures
'Memento' (2000) follows a man with short term memory, using a complex narrative structure.
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano.
Newmarket Films
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'Insomnia' follows Al Pacino as a detective with a secret in a town where the sun doesn't set.
Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank.
Warner Bros. Pictures/Summit Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures
2005's 'Batman Begins' is the origin story of Bruce Wayne AKA Batman.
Starring Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, and Gary Oldman.
Warner Bros. Pictures
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'The Prestige' (2006) tells the deadly tale of two competing magicians trying to one-up each other.
Starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine.
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution/Warner Bros. Pictures
2008's 'The Dark Knight' had Batman face off against Heath Ledger's iconic Joker.
Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, and Michael Caine.
Warner Bros. Pictures
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'Inception' (2010) follows Leonardo DiCaprio as a thief infiltrating people's dreams in order to plant an idea in their subconscious.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Warner Bros. Pictures
'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012) closed out Nolan's Batman trilogy with Tom Hardy as his most brutal villain yet, Bane.
Starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine.
Warner Bros. Pictures
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'Interstellar' (2014) plays with time and spaces in an epic quest where a team of astronauts head through a wormhole in space.
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain.
Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures
2017's 'Dunkirk' cleverly interweaves three different perspectives that are set in different time-lengths: an hour, a day, and a week.
Starring Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and Harry Styles.
Warner Bros. Pictures