Inception is Christopher Nolan’s best movie

Inception has plenty of worthy competition. Nolan’s most broadly popular movie remains The Dark Knight, flanked by the impressive scale and scope of his other other Batman movies, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises. Oppenheimer and Dunkirk offer World War II-themed prestige for more traditional-minded fans. For that matter, in recent years, sci-fi-oriented hardcore fans have been going to bat for the less universally acclaimed (but now cultishly adored) Interstellar or Tenet. That leaves Inception looking a bit like the normie’s choice — or maybe nobody’s first choice at all.