Overblown and undercooked, Inception seems like a real head trip when you first watch it. However, further reflection reveals it is vapid and shallow, and none of the characters are at all interesting. Nolan's weakest film to date.

Based on the harsh but inspired book by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho gets better every single time I watch it. Christian Bale is beyond perfect as Patrick Bateman, a man so obsessed with appearance and status that there's nothing more to him. Oh, except that he's a serial killer. Or is he? The ambiguity and grim satire come together to make a film that continues to grow in my esteem.

The greatest film of all time. Kubrick does things with the medium that no one has yet surpassed.