19 INCEPTION 2010

HEIST STAKES INSIDE YOUR MIND

EXPECTATION Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan helming a big-budget sci-fi original. Sold.

OMG The brain-scrambling, multilayered thriller showcases Nolan’s gift for visually stunning set-pieces (the corridor scrap, the ski mission, Paris folding) and complex narratives that unfurl intuitively, as dream thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and team plant an idea in a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream(-within-a-dream?). WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Became the highest-grossing original movie of 2010. Nolan remains cinema’s foremost purveyor of explosive brain-food.

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”

Brad Pitt and Will Smith reportedly missed out on the lead role.