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Following is Christopher Nolan's debut film, which he shot in black and white on a $3,000 budget. The finished product is a fast 70-minute thriller with multiple surprising plot twists. Following is film noir at its finest.

The Force Awakens is about as original as Jurassic World. The characters, worlds, and plot are ripoffs of the original Star Wars. The only difference is that the writing is worse. Whereas in A New Hope Han talks down to Luke ("Who's gonna fly it, kid? You?"), in The Force Awakens Rey one-ups Han at fixing his own ship. Rey speaks every language, uses the Force without training, and wins a duel the first time she picks up a lightsaber. She lacks any weaknesses or character growth.

Interstellar is the only movie to ever move me to tears. Christopher Nolan turns Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne's physics equations into mind-blowing visual effects in a heart-wrenching epic drama about the survival of humanity, interstellar travel, relativity, and a father-daughter relationship that transcends spacetime. Even the dialogue is poetic: "We used to look up at the sky and wonder about our place in the stars; now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."

Memento is one of the greatest movies ever made, a neo-noir psychological thriller with motifs of memory, grief, and self-deception. The main character, Leonard Shelby, who suffers from anterograde amnesia (the inability to create new memories), relies on an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track the elusive John G., the man who **** and murdered his wife and took away his memory. A sequence of black-and-white scenes in chronological order is interspersed with a sequence of color scenes in reverse order (simulating the main character's mental state for the audience). The two sequences coincide at the climax, which is chronologically at the midpoint of the story. Along the way, all characters develop plans to exact revenge through manipulating others.