# Christopher Nolan's movies ranked

All twelve Christopher Nolan features from Following to Oppenheimer, ranked by consensus between IMDb ratings and critics' rankings.

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- Mar 21, 2024 · cinephile_curious
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## Top 12

1. **The Dark Knight** (87 · ▲93 ▼6) — 2008. Heath Ledger's Joker, posthumous Oscar winner; the superhero film as crime epic.
2. **Inception** (71 · ▲77 ▼6) — 2010. Dream heists, the spinning top and Hans Zimmer's 'BRAAAM'; four Oscars.
3. **Interstellar** (61 · ▲66 ▼5) — 2014. Matthew McConaughey crosses a wormhole; the black hole Gargantua was modelled with physicist Kip Thorne.
4. **Oppenheimer** (56 · ▲61 ▼5) — 2023. Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb; seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
5. **Dunkirk** (51 · ▲54 ▼3) — 2017. The 1940 evacuation told on land, sea and air across three timelines; three Oscars.
6. **The Prestige** (47 · ▲54 ▼7) — 2006. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians in Victorian London, with David Bowie as Tesla.
7. **Memento** (38 · ▲44 ▼6) — 2000. A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer, told backwards.
8. **Tenet** (34 · ▲39 ▼5) — 2020. A spy thriller with time inversion, released in the middle of the pandemic.
9. **Insomnia** (33 · ▲43 ▼10) — 2002. Al Pacino as a detective who cannot sleep under Alaska's midnight sun, with Robin Williams.
10. **The Dark Knight Rises** (32 · ▲41 ▼9) — 2012. Bane, a broken Gotham and the end of the trilogy.
11. **Batman Begins** (27 · ▲38 ▼11) — 2005. The reboot that brought Batman back down to earth, with Christian Bale.
12. **Following** (26 · ▲36 ▼10) — 1998. His black-and-white debut, shot on weekends for about £6,000.

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