A couple weeks ago, I published my spoiler-free first take on Inception. It was positive. A rave. A bubbly exclamation that was openly questioned out there by other media outlets. But I stand by every ...

A man with some things on/in his mind. Photo: Warner Bros. The process of inception works, we’re told, by placing the simplest form of an idea deep into a character’s subconscious as they’re dreaming, ...

IF I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. But nothing is ever ...

The big buzz this morning has been over the startling omission of Christopher Nolan in the best director category from today’s Oscar nominations announcement, but there’s a bigger story that needs to ...

Inception has one of the most intriguing and talked-about endings of all time, but the biggest clue to solving its mystery isn’t the spinning top. In 2010, Christopher Nolan explored the complexity of ...

Just in time for tomorrow’s home video release of “Inception,” here is a fan-made version of the film for those of us wondering how it might have looked as directed by Mike Figgis in 2000. Seriously, ...