Inception (2010)

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'Inception': Chris Nolan's Brilliant Crackpot of a Movie

July 21, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

An astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly.

July 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (314)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

It's only the latest indication that Christopher Nolan might be the slyest narrative tactician making movies today.

July 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (7)

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

Pretty good, not bad, but brilliant it surely ain't.

July 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (47)

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Inception is a boldly constructed wonder with plenty of -- as one character describes it -- "paradoxical architecture."

July 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

I found myself admiring the movie's stubborn adherence to its own universe and logic.

July 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (5)

Chris Vognar

Dallas Morning News

Top Critic

A smart and inventive thriller, "Inception" is one of the year's best movies.

December 31, 2012 Full Review

John Hanlon

Big Hollywood

Nolan has cemented himself among the great filmmakers of our time, not only with this film, but with most of his other works as well.

September 25, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Despite its two- and a half-hour length, it flies by and just like a great dream you don't want to wake up from, even after the end credits start, you'll desperately crave five more minutes.

August 27, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Ambitious, sure, but ultimately too far-fetched for its own good.

July 11, 2012 Full Review | Comments (9)

Dan Jardine

Cinemania

The technical virtuosity pouring from every frame is astounding.

November 5, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

It's intentionally, thrillingly, disorienting.

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dave White

Movies.com

Flaws aside, there's a lot to like about Inception and Nolan keeps his eye on the ball throughout, offering up a lush treat of a thriller with nerve and wit

March 27, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Taken at theatrical value, director/writer Christopher Nolan's tale of purposeful memory-travel is a fun and exciting trip into the creative subconscious.

February 26, 2011 Full Review

S. James Wegg

JWR

A film trying feverishly to spin your head whilst feverishly trying to explain how it's spinning it.

February 13, 2011 Full Review | Comments (44)

Gareth Simms

Platform

It is the film by which to measure the density of all others.

January 10, 2011 Full Review

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

What is the point of having an imagination, I ask you, if the only thing that can be imagined is mayhem, perpetrated without regard for even the appearance of human life?

January 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (51)

Stuart Klawans

The Nation

A brain-twister to be sure. But the fact that the plot demands attention only adds to the exhilaration. This is a story about dreams that requires the audience to stay awake.

December 22, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Jason Best

Movie Talk

It's a bold, stunning feature of impossible technical virtuosity. It also has the tendency to be about as emotionally stimulating as a college lecture.

December 21, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Rent the visually stunning and audibly engaging Inception on Blu-ray and revel in the mash up of competing genres and themes so unique to the Hollywood landscape. Just don't waste your time buying the disc for the lacking, inconsequential extras.

December 13, 2010 Full Review

Glenn Heath Jr.

Slant Magazine

This is architecture as cinema, on every level: Narrative, conceptual, symbolic, visual...

December 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Sean Axmaker

Parallax View

• 1. Cobb: Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange.
  – Submitted by gage l (29 days ago)
• 1. Cobb: That price on my head, was that dead or alive?
  2. Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.
  – Submitted by Miguel V (2 months ago)
• 1. Eames: If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.
  – Submitted by Miguel V (2 months ago)
• 1. Eames: [Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [Pulls out a grenade launcher]
  – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
• 1. Mal: No creeping doubts? Not feeling persecuted, Dom? Chased around the globe by anonymous corporations and police forces, the way the projections persecute the dreamer? Admit it: you don't believe in one reality anymore. So choose. Choose to be here. Choose me.
  – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
• 1. Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.
  – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)