★★★★★
The Odyssey — I Walked Right Back In
Nolan aimed the biggest camera on earth at the oldest story about going home -- and I walked out of the 70mm IMAX and bought a ticket to...
Christopher Nolan
Director Archive
Every Lunara Film review currently filed under Christopher Nolan lives here, so the archive reads like a focused filmography rather than a scattershot tag page.
★★★★★
The archive keeps moving.
★★★★½
Lunara Film Review
Tenet — Don’t Understand It. Feel It.
The Nolan film I have watched the most is the one everybody claims not to understand -- and the film told us all, out loud, in the trailer,...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★½
Lunara Film Review
Dunkirk — The Clocks Are the Story
A week on the beach, a day on the sea, an hour in the air -- braided into one escalating sensation. Dunkirk is the closest Nolan has come...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★★
Lunara Film Review
Interstellar — This Generation’s 2001
I will make the claim without a safety net: Interstellar may well be this generation's 2001 -- and the heresy is that it out-feels its...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★½
Lunara Film Review
The Dark Knight Rises — Following a Shooting Star
No sequel in modern movies inherited a harder assignment: follow the film that changed everything, without the shooting star who changed...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★★
Lunara Film Review
Inception — The Review Already Exists
The definitive review of this film was written in the summer of 2010 by the critic I love most in this business, and anything I add to its...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★★
Lunara Film Review
The Dark Knight — I Believed in Harvey Dent
My parents were out of town, the first showing on opening night was packed to the walls, and I walked out having watched a shooting star...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★★
Lunara Film Review
The Prestige — The Second Viewing Is the Trick
The film tells you its secret in the first five minutes, out loud, twice. I did not hear it until the second viewing -- and the gap between...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★½
Lunara Film Review
Batman Begins — My Batman
Everyone has their Batman. Mine showed up on opening night in 2005, sitting between my grandparents, when a filmmaker finally took a man...
Updated September 23, 2026
★★★★
Lunara Film Review
Insomnia — The Light Never Blinks
A guilty cop is sent to an Alaskan town where the sun never goes down, and the film's real special effect is Robin Williams holding...
Updated September 23, 2026