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Inception (2010) Review — Can Someone Really Plant an Idea in Your Mind? | Reel & Read Reel & Read Movie Review  ·  Sci-Fi Thriller  ·  2010 Can Someone Really Plant an Idea in Your Mind? Inception (2010) — Directed by Christopher Nolan ★★★★ 4 / 5 📽 Leonardo DiCaprio 🎬 Christopher Nolan ⏱ 148 mins 🗓 2010 Genre Sci-Fi · Thriller · Action Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page Director Christopher Nolan My Rating 4 / 5 ⭐ Spoiler-Free Review ✦ Safe to read before watching The question that Inception plants in your head — and never fully lets go of — is a simple one: is it possible for someone to place an idea inside your mind so deep, so quietly, that you believe it was yours all along? Christopher Nolan doesn't just ask this question. He builds an entire world around it and th...

The Prestige (2006) Review — The Trick That Fooled Everyone | Reel & Read Reel & Read Movie Review  ·  Thriller  ·  2006 The Trick Isn't Enough. You Have to Ask Yourself — Where Did It Go? The Prestige (2006) — Directed by Christopher Nolan ★★★★★ 5 / 5 📽 Hugh Jackman · Christian Bale 🎬 Christopher Nolan ⏱ 130 mins 🗓 2006 Genre Mystery · Thriller · Drama Starring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine Based on The Prestige (novel) by Christopher Priest My Rating 5 / 5 ⭐ I came to The Prestige the way most people probably do — someone told me it had one of the greatest endings in cinema history, and I went in half-sceptical. I had seen enough films with "twist endings" that disappointed, that cheated, that felt like the story had pulled a cheap trick on me rather than a real one. I did not expect what ha...