"The Summer's Best, Most Disappointing Blockbuster"

by Chris Bodenner

Christopher Orr reviews Christopher Nolan's latest:

[I:]n this end, it may be Inception's greatest strength, its precisionengineering, that also proves its signal weakness. Nolan has alwaysbeen a nimble, meticulous director, but his best work has exceeded suchtechnical virtues. His first major film, Memento, may have taken theform of a gimmick movie, but it transcended its own structuralingenuity to become one of the most unique and resonant tragedies ofthe past 25 years. His...