The 5 Most Fun Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked

Christopher Nolan has spent most of his career making audiences do two things at once in his films. Part of your brain is trying to understand the rules, while another part is simply enjoying a train appearing in the middle of traffic or two men beating each other up while gravity stops cooperating. That split is essential to his appeal. Nolan is fascinated by time, memory, obsession, identity, guilt, and the unreliable stories people tell themselves, but he also understands something much more basic about movies. Ideas become far more exciting when they are attached to an image you cannot wait to see.