MSN Movies
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9
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By James Rocchi
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Nov 20, 2010
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t has all of Nolan's strengths, and some of his weaknesses, and it is undeniably his. It is a $160 million action film about loss and regret, and it is exciting in part because of its flaws.
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Hollywood Reporter
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0
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Jul 24, 2010
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What Are Inception's Oscar Odds?
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Passionate Moviegoer
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8
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By Joe Baltake
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Jul 21, 2010
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'Inception': Chris Nolan's Brilliant Crackpot of a Movie
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Seattle Movie Examiner
Review - 'Inception' is worth the headache
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8
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By Beth Clough
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Jul 19, 2010
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If the previews showed you anything, it is that 'Inception' is a mind-trip. Christopher Nolan wrote and directed a film that is a compelling trip through the mind’s inner psyche, where you are taken on a paradoxical romp through a dream with-in-a-dream. This extraordinary movie centers on a time when corporate espionage has escalated to a heightened-cerebral level. Leonardo DiCaprio plays "Cobb," a thief for hire...
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New Yorker
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2
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By David Denby
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Jul 19, 2010
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An astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly.
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
Movie Review: 'Inception'
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6
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By Joseph J. Airdo
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Jul 19, 2010
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In Christopher Nolan's new psychodrama 'Inception,' it is explained that one's perception of time is skewed in dreams so that one minute can feel like one hour. And although the movie is already pushing our patience at 148 minutes, it sure feels like a whole lot longer. While 'Inception' spells out some fairly fascinating concepts, it ultimately asks too much of its audience. Some moviegoers - namely sci-fi...
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West Palm Beach and Miami Movie Examiner
'Inception' must be seen in IMAX!
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10
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By Steven Lebowitz
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Jul 17, 2010
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Too many summer movies get a tagline of "The most anticipated movie of the summer!" Those taglines are usually reserved for sequels. "Iron Man 2" was such a film and most recently "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". Fans of these franchises certainly couldn’t wait to see their favorite characters caught up in new adventures; but, then there are others who could not care less. It’s very rare for an original movie to get the...
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Movie Examiner
There'll be no brainwashing before dinner. Not in this house: A Review of Inception
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8
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By Adam Lippe
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Jul 16, 2010
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Christopher Nolan’s Inception shares a lot of similarities with Tarsem Singh’s The Cell*. It’s a highly ambitious story dealing with entering people’s minds and has grand and stylized visuals, and a harrumphing, doom-impending score by Hans Zimmer that could easily be confused for Howard Shore’s work (Along with The Cell, Shore writes music for most of David Cronenberg’s films). Inception even has an endlessly convoluted structure,...
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Wall Street Journal
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2
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By John Anderson
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Jul 16, 2010
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By convoluting the various planes of experience, by overlapping and obscuring ostensible realities and ostensible dreams, Mr. Nolan deprives us the opportunity of investing emotionally in any of it.
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ReelViews
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9
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By James Berardinelli
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Jul 16, 2010
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All it asks of viewers is that they do something rare: engage the intellect.
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New York Daily News
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10
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By Elizabeth Weitzman
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Jul 16, 2010
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The ambition on display is so huge, and the filmmaking so intelligent, you'll emerge feeling as if you've just watched an entire season of the greatest sci-fi series never made.
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Los Angeles Times
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8
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By Kenneth Turan
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Jul 16, 2010
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This is a popular entertainment with a knockout punch so intense and unnerving it'll have you worrying if it's safe to close your eyes at night.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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10
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By Colin Covert
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Jul 16, 2010
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Nolan's film is surely the most ambitious psychological thriller ever, and yet also the most personal. His baroque imagination makes most directors' efforts look like beach-pail sand castles alongside Mad King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle.
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Houston Chronicle
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10
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By Amy Biancolli
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Jul 16, 2010
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It's only the latest indication that Christopher Nolan might be the slyest narrative tactician making movies today.
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Globe and Mail
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8
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By Rick Groen
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Jul 16, 2010
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Pretty good, not bad, but brilliant it surely ain't.
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Denver Post
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10
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By Lisa Kennedy
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Jul 16, 2010
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Inception is a boldly constructed wonder with plenty of -- as one character describes it -- "paradoxical architecture."
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Dallas Morning News
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9
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By Chris Vognar
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Jul 16, 2010
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I found myself admiring the movie's stubborn adherence to its own universe and logic.
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Washington Post
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9
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By Ann Hornaday
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Jul 16, 2010
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Inception is that rare film that can be enjoyed on superficial and progressively deeper levels, a feat that uncannily mimics the mind-bending journey its protagonist takes.
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Phoenix Film Industry Examiner
Movie Review: 'Inception' a mind bending experience, receives my highest rating!
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10
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By Stan Robinson
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Jul 16, 2010
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Dreams. They’re the one aspect that every human being on the planet has in common. Some are more pleasant and often give insight on pressing matters in our waking lives. Others leave’s us with the thought, ‘whew, glad that’s over and I’m awake now’. The comforting factor is that our dreams are totally ours, created and put together by our own subconscious. What if our dreams could be created and...
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Dallas Movie Examiner
Movie review: 'Inception' plays with your mind in a good way
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10
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By Steven Morse
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Jul 16, 2010
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What would you do if your innermost secrets, dreams and desires were accessible to anyone and you couldn't control it? What if someone could tap into your subconscious and steal your secrets or even implant an idea that’s not really yours? That is the idea of mastermind director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), an incredibly creative idea that drives his summer blockbuster Inception. Nolan takes the heist concept, develops and enhances it with...
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NY Film Examiner
A powerful, thrilling and imaginative 'Inception'
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10
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By Marcos Bernal-Salas
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Jul 16, 2010
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What does everyone dream about? Do you get your best ideas in your sleep? Director Christopher Nolan ("Memento", "Batman Begins", and "The Dark Knight") explores the infinite realm of dreams with his latest sci-fi action film "Inception". The story leads in with Dom Cobb, formidably play by Leonardo DiCaprio, who is the best at the art of extraction – stealing ideas and valuable secrets from...
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Baltimore Movie Examiner
Movie review: Inception, 8.15 out of 10
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8
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By Tom Clocker
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Jul 16, 2010
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8.15 out of 10 Although ‘Inception’ is a very good movie, it is not the greatest movie ever made. It’s not even the best movie of 2010 as so many critics are saying. The film is beautifully made with a fantastic Hans Zimmer score. The acting is top notch and the basic story is quite intriguing. The problem is writer/director Christopher Nolan weaves such a complex story together that the best you can hope for is to fully understand it after multiple viewings....
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Denver Film Community Examiner
Movie review: 'Inception'
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4
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By Christian Toto
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Jul 16, 2010
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Ellen Page’s character in the new Christopher Nolan epic "Inception" turns to her fellow dream raiders mid film and asks, "whose sub conscious are we in again?" Darned if we know, Ellen. "Inception" isn’t the best film of the summer as critics and movie fans alike long dreamed about. It’s the most maddening. Nolan’s new film requires more brain power than a Mensa meeting, more...
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Boston Movie Examiner
Inception : A truly stunning and exciting achievement in filmmaking ! - A Review
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10
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By Tim Estiloz
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Jul 16, 2010
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In the 1941 classic film, 'The Maltese Falcon', Humphrey Bogart famously uttered the classic line that the falcon was, '... the stuff that dreams are made of'. Today, in the new film 'Inception', filmmaker Christopher Nolan brilliantly makes audiences rethink, via a stunningly original screenplay and execution, what indeed is ... the stuff that dreams are made of. 'Inception' is, perhaps Nolan's crowning achievement...
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USA Today
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9
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By Claudia Puig
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Jul 15, 2010
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With Inception, writer/director Christopher Nolan not only cements his status as Hollywood's most innovative filmmaker, he has created a daring genre: the surrealist heist thriller. Or, maybe he has developed the dream invasion action epic.
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Boston Globe
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8
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By Wesley Morris
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Jul 15, 2010
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One of the best things about Nolan as a director is that he?s not self-conscious. His movies unfold and fold in on themselves without the strain of labor or flash. But that lack of self-consciousness is also Nolan?s downside.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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10
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By Roger Ebert
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Jul 15, 2010
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It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for Inception. That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire.
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Chicago Tribune
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6
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By Michael Phillips
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Jul 15, 2010
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This elegant brain-bender affirms the prodigious imagination and clout of writer-director Christopher Nolan. Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, works as an "extraction" expert, able to enter someone's subconscious and purloin valuable information for a fee. The plot, I suspect, will not matter much to people interested in diving into Nolan's rich, sleek series of collapsing surfaces. Oh, well. "Inception" may not be the ultimate trip, but Nolan's filmmaking intelligence places him among our most persuasive contemporary fantasists.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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6
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By Steven Rea
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Jul 15, 2010
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The dream logic of Inception -- which deals, like Nolan's far more intriguing Memento, with the architecture of memory and the nature of reality -- is stymied by a clunking script, crammed with expository exchanges and urgent blather.
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Richard Roeper.com
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10
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By Richard Roeper
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Jul 15, 2010
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One of the most intoxicating, challenging and beautiful movies of the 21st century, deserving of multiple Oscar nominations.
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Chicago Reader
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2
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By J. R. Jones
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Jul 15, 2010
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Inception delivers dazzling special effects and a boatload of stars, but it sags and eventually buckles under the weight of its complicated premise.
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New York Times
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5
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By A.O. Scott
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Jul 15, 2010
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It trades in crafty puzzles rather than profound mysteries, and gestures in the direction of mighty philosophical questions that Mr. Nolan is finally too tactful, too timid or perhaps just too busy to engage.
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TIME Magazine
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By Richard Corliss
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Jul 15, 2010
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The idea of moviegoing as communal dreaming is a century old. With Inception, viewers have a chance to see that notion get a state-of-the-art update. Take that chance: dream along with Christopher Nolan.
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Salon.com
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By Andrew O'Hehir
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Jul 15, 2010
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Inception may have been directed by Christopher Nolan, but Nolan's dreams are apparently directed by Michael Bay.
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New Movie Examiner
'Inception' is why you should love the movies
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10
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By Matthew Razak
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Jul 15, 2010
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Critics complaining about their terrible lives of watching movies all the time has become somewhat of a cliché, especially since the dawn of the internet. However, it does get a bit rough watching almost every movie that comes out every week because there are simply a lot of bad movies out there. And when you see so many bad movies the mediocre ones start to look bad too and the good ones start to look mediocre and everything starts blurring into one giant swirl of film leaving you...
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Tampa Movie Examiner
Movie review: 'Inception'
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10
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By Joe Belcastro
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Jul 15, 2010
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Inception, a movie written and directed by Sigmund Freud, I mean Christopher Nolan, is very impressive. Damn near perfection. The undertaking of this script is challenging as getting a black belt in Karate. If one has ever witnessed a black belt test, it requires precise movement and stamina. By the time one gets to the last leg of the test, the precise movements achieved up to this point, start to wither away just a bit. The...
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Detroit Movie Examiner
Movie review: 'Inception', starring Leonardo DiCaprio, with exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
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8
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By Tom Santilli
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Jul 15, 2010
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Suspense Opens Friday, July 16th (view the NCM Widget below for showtimes and locations) Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Tom Berrenger, Marion Cotillard Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) It is impossible to review this movie without touching on some spoilers, although I will not reveal any major plot developments or secrets...With that said, if you...
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New York Post
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10
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By Lou Lumenick
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Jul 14, 2010
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A sublime brain-twister of a movie that plays out so intricately on so many levels simultaneously that a bathroom break comes at your own peril.
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Orlando Sentinel
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8
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By Roger Moore
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Jul 14, 2010
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Inception is an elegant, portentous ride, though I?m not sure Nolan is any closer to visualizing the real (dream) deal than Hitchcock was.
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Village Voice
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2
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By Nick Pinkerton
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Jul 14, 2010
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It's obvious that Nolan either can't articulate or doesn't believe in a distinction between living feelings and dreams -- and his barren Inception doesn't capture much of either.
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Rolling Stone
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9
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By Peter Travers
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Jul 14, 2010
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In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big.
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Toronto Star
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9
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By Peter Howell
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Jul 14, 2010
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At first, Inception left me cold, feeling as if I?d just eavesdropped on somebody?s bad acid trip. Now I find I can?t get the film out of my mind, which is really the whole point of it, isn?t it?
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Associated Press
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8
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By Christy Lemire
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Jul 14, 2010
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One of the year's best films, one that will surely get even better upon repeated viewings.
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New York Observer
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2
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By Rex Reed
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Jul 14, 2010
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None of this prattling drivel adds up to one iota of cogent or convincing logic. You never know who anyone is, what their goals are, who they work for or what they're doing.
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Houston Movie Examiner
Inception (2010) review
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10
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By Chris Sawin
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Jul 14, 2010
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*This review is as spoiler-free as possible* Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) has figured out a way to uncover everything about any individual if he's allowed into their subconscious. Cobb knows the ins and outs of our dreams and, on top of that, steals whatever he wants from them; it's the art of extraction. This incredible discovery has come with a price as Cobb can no longer return home since he is a well-known criminal hiding out from the law. That is until one last job...
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New York Magazine
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By David Edelstein
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Jul 12, 2010
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I wanted to surrender to this dream; I didn?t want to be out in the cold, alone. But I truly have no idea what so many people are raving about.
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Entertainment Weekly
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8
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Jul 12, 2010
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As engrossing and logic-resistant as the state of dreaming it seeks to replicate, Christopher Nolan's audacious new creation demands further study to fully absorb the multiple, simultaneous stories Nolan finagles into one narrative experience.
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SFX Magazine
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8
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By Nick Setchfield
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Jul 10, 2010
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A film erupting with ideas, ambition and intelligence, one that credits the viewer with the capacity for some mental heavy lifting.
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Fan The Fire
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10
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By Martin Roberts
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Jul 10, 2010
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It is hugely impressive that, given what was at stake, Nolan has managed to not only pull this out of the bag, but to absolutely nail it. The film is as all-encompassing as the concept of its title: grand, epic, smart and unforgettable.
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IGN Movies
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10
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By Jim Vejvoda
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Jul 09, 2010
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Inception could very well be Nolan's masterpiece.
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indieWIRE
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10
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By Anne Thompson
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Jul 09, 2010
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Beyond a taut suspense thriller, Inception is also a moving love story.
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CinemaBlend.com
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By Katey Rich
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Jul 09, 2010
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Inception doesn't just dream bigger than most movies even dare, but it leaves the audience feeling inspired to do the same.
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UGO
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10
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By Jordan Hoffman
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Jul 09, 2010
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There are times in Christopher Nolan's somnolent crime caper where you'll find yourself recognizing moments from your own subconscious on the screen, to a thrilling, frightening and ultimately inspiring effect.
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Can Magazine
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By Fred Topel
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Jul 09, 2010
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I didn't get my mind blown by Inception but I enjoyed it. I mean, it's no Total Recall.
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Variety
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By Justin Chang
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Jul 09, 2010
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If movies are shared dreams, then Christopher Nolan is surely one of Hollywood's most inventive dreamers, given the evidence of his commandingly clever Inception.
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Hollywood Reporter
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By Kirk Honeycutt
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Jul 09, 2010
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A devilishly complicated, fiendishly enjoyable sci-fi voyage across a dreamscape that is thoroughly compelling.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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By Emanuel Levy
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Jul 09, 2010
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More admirable in intellectual ambition and technical execution than in emotional impact, Inception is an unusual blockbuster, driven by ideas rather than CGI action, but also excessive and overwrought in the last hour.
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Empire Magazine
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10
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By Nev Pierce
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Jul 09, 2010
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With physics-defying, thunderous action, heart-wringing emotion and an astonishing performance from DiCaprio, Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country.
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ComingSoon.net
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10
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By Edward Douglas
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Jul 09, 2010
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Nolan's most personal and daring film, "Inception" contains some of Nolan's most innovative ideas since "Memento." It's also his most successful movie in terms of being able to fully realize every nuance of such a rich concept.
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