No matter what genre he’s working in, a new Christopher Nolan movie typically becomes one of the most anticipated releases of the year before a single frame of footage has been captured. While his breakout movie was the original narrative Memento, it was his work in The Dark Knight trilogy that confirmed Nolan could make compelling adventures that satiated cinephiles and also appealed to average moviegoers. Arguably, what has made the filmmaker so prolific is the way he manages to balance telling entirely original stories like Inception and Tenet with adaptations of established ideas, like Oppenheimer and Insomnia.

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