Inception is Christopher Nolan's best movie
Inception joined the National Film Registry this year, adding to Nolan films already inducted: Memento in 2017 and The Dark Knight in 2020. Given Oppenheimer’s status as a multi‑Oscar‑winning, IMAX‑sized smash about a vital period of world history, it may join them at some point.
Even amid that competition, the argument here is that Inception remains Nolan’s best film. The movie faces plenty of rivals within Nolan’s catalog—The Dark Knight and the other Batman films, Oppenheimer and Dunkirk for history‑minded viewers, and sci‑fi favorites like Interstellar and Tenet.
Inception earned big box‑office returns and high ratings, yet it has also been criticized for a buttoned‑up approach to science fiction that some find less adventurous than its premise promises. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief, con artist, and, in his own way, a movie director who invades people’s dreams to steal or alter information.