Christopher Nolan

The Dark Knight: Selling Tickets – and a Muddled Political Message

The movie asks America a question: Will you sacrifice your privacy, accept surveillance of your every phone call, as if you were a villain, in order to snare terrorists?

Originally published: July 29, 2008

Ten Years Later, “The Dark Knight” and Its Vision of Guilt Still Resonate

July 18, 2018

“2001: A Space Odyssey” and the Limits of Vision

May 19, 2018

“Dunkirk” Is the Movie Christopher Nolan Was Born to Make

It’s a nerve-racking nesting doll of ticking-clock narratives. And it’s incredible.

July 17, 2017

Interstellar May Be Grand, But It Doesn’t Connect

by Stephanie Zacharek

October 29, 2014

Transcendence Director Wally Pfister Doesn’t Want Immortality (Neither Does Johnny Depp)

by Amy Nicholson

April 16, 2014

In May I Kill U?, a Psycho Bike Cop Takes to YouTube

by Chris Packham

January 29, 2014

The Four Types of Spoilers and How Reviewers Should Handle Them

by Chris Klimek

October 30, 2013

Race 2: Action, as You’d Expect

by Simon Abrams

January 30, 2013

Self-Important, The Dark Knight Rises Feels Like Batman Forever

by Nick Pinkerton

July 18, 2012