Christopher Nolan has become one of the most polarizing directors among very online moviegoers. His passionate fans are eager to declare every endeavor of his genius, while others are just as fast to dismiss his work as empty, pseudo-intellectual slop. Perhaps fitting of an editor at National Review, I am a bit of a fusionist. That is, I loved some of his work (especially Memento and The Dark Knight trilogy) and felt other of his movies were overrated (the long confirmation hearing scenes in Oppenheimer bored me, for instance, while the weak story left me underinvested in Dunkirk).
Given this, I ...
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