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Christopher Nolan
March 11, 2024
Adam Nayman
The Oscars’ Spectacle of Seriousness
The night saw a jarring dissonance between political statement and glitzy showmanship.
January 23, 2024
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Oppenheimer
Is Leading This Year’s Oscar Nominations
Here is The New Republic’s guide to the contenders for the 96th Academy Awards in 2024
July 21, 2023
David Klion
Oppenheimer
Is an Uncomfortably Timely Tale of Destruction
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster captures the scientific triumphs and monstrous sins of the Manhattan Project.
July 25, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
Dunkirk
Manages to Make War Boring
Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.
March 11, 2016
Elaine Teng
Christopher Nolan goes One Direction.
November 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Christopher Nolan's worst movie is getting remade.
June 14, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Superbad
The puritanical undertones beneath the mess of 'Man of Steel'
September 14, 2012
David Denby
Has Hollywood Murdered the Movies?
July 24, 2012
David Thomson
Aurora and Batman
July 19, 2012
Isaac Chotiner
The Dark Gnat: How Christopher Nolan’s Embarrassing Seriousness Ruined Batman
July 18, 2012
Marc Tracy
A Bain By Any Other Spelling
July 21, 2010
David Thomson
Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With ‘Inception’?
November 12, 2008
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