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It’s official: Christopher Nolan is the greatest film director of all time.All right, “official” may be stretching it sl...
21/07/2026

It’s official: Christopher Nolan is the greatest film director of all time.

All right, “official” may be stretching it slightly - but the evidence is becoming difficult to argue with.

Set aside his tiny, no-budget debut Following, and Nolan has now directed 12 major films, from Memento to The Odyssey, without making a single bad - or even mediocre - one. Every film is ambitious, distinctive and designed to make cinema feel like an event.

Other legendary directors may have reached similar heights, but almost all of them eventually produced an obvious disappointment. Nolan’s extraordinary run includes The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer and now The Odyssey. Even his most divisive film, Tenet, is an astonishingly ambitious technical achievement rather than a lazy failure.

The Odyssey has now earned $264.1 million worldwide in its opening weekend, Nolan’s biggest international opening and his biggest global debut outside the Batman films.

Even more remarkably, a nationwide UK poll reportedly found that 51% of cinemagoers went primarily because it was directed by Christopher Nolan, rather than because of Homer’s famous story or its enormous cast. That is virtually unprecedented. Film stars have traditionally sold tickets; Nolan has reached the point where the director’s name above the title is enough.

Plenty of filmmakers have made masterpieces. Nobody else has maintained this level of quality, ambition, originality and commercial appeal across an entire mainstream career.

Christopher Nolan hasn’t merely avoided making a bad film.

He hasn’t even come particularly close.

Tomorrow I finally get to see "The Odyssey". Unfortunately my dogs will not be allowed in, but I rendered an AI image of...
16/07/2026

Tomorrow I finally get to see "The Odyssey". Unfortunately my dogs will not be allowed in, but I rendered an AI image of them watching the film anyway 🤣

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