Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlinįinding Nemo's Andrew Stanton went from deep sea to deep space for this delightfully warped trek, seen through the eyes of a trash-bot tasked with cleaning up a centuries-later Earth smothered in garbage.Unless we're just dreaming all of this, that is… Of course, as good as Cobb is at his job, it's his own dreams - including appearances by his dead wife (Marion Cotillard) - that are his biggest challenge.īuoyed by a great cast (including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe and Michael Caine), stunning visual effects and those rarest of Hollywood commodities - an original and intelligent script - Inception is a no-brainer for this list. At the heart of the picture is Leonardo DiCaprio's Dom Cobb, a stricken widower who specializes in a form of corporate espionage that involves stealing information from a mark's mind while they sleep. Inception doesn't just simply fit into the sci-fi genre, it's a caper film as well as an avant-garde delve into dreamscapes. A mind-bending sci-fi stunner that proved Hollywood blockbusters could still be smart while also dazzling us on a visual and visceral level, Inception is certainly one of the best films to hit, sci-fi or not, in this still young 21st century.

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot PageĬhristopher Nolan movies won the hearts and minds of fanboys with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he truly solidified his status as a filmmaker at the top of his game with 2010's Inception.

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