Christopher Nolan
Hot and cold
Best movie
9.1
The Dark Knight (2008)
Worst movie
7.1
Man of Steel (2013)
First 5 to latest 5
+0.2
7.9 → 8.1 on average
Average rating
8.1
20.1M votes in total
IMDb rating per movie
The best rated of the 14 movies Christopher Nolan directed or wrote is The Dark Knight (2008), at 9.1 on IMDb, and the worst is Man of Steel (2013), at 7.1. The first 5 average 7.9 and the latest 5 8.1, up by 0.2. Together they average 8.1, from 20.1M votes in total.
Movie by movie
| Movie | Role | Released | Votes | Rating | Change | Rating bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Following | Director · Writer | 1998 | 114.9K | 7.4 | ||
| Memento | Director · Writer | 2000 | 1.5M | 8.4 | +1.0 | |
| Insomnia | Director | 2002 | 353.1K | 7.2 | −1.2 | |
| Batman Begins | Director · Writer | 2005 | 1.7M | 8.2 | +1.0 | |
| The Prestige | Director · Writer | 2006 | 1.6M | 8.5 | +0.3 | |
| The Dark KnightBest | Director · Writer | 2008 | 3.2M | 9.1 | +0.6 | |
| Inception | Director · Writer | 2010 | 2.9M | 8.8 | −0.3 | |
| The Dark Knight Rises | Director · Writer | 2012 | 2M | 8.4 | −0.4 | |
| Man of SteelWorst | Writer | 2013 | 878.7K | 7.1 | −1.3 | |
| Interstellar | Director · Writer | 2014 | 2.6M | 8.7 | +1.6 | |
| Dunkirk | Director · Writer | 2017 | 830.1K | 7.8 | −0.9 | |
| Tenet | Director · Writer | 2020 | 713.5K | 7.3 | −0.5 | |
| Oppenheimer | Director · Writer | 2023 | 1.1M | 8.2 | +0.9 | |
| The Odyssey | Director · Writer | 2026 | 528.3K | 8.4 | +0.2 |
Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb.
Worked with
Michael Caine
Not what it used to be
First 5 7.2−1.0Latest 5 6.2
Christian Bale
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
First 5 7.1−0.6Latest 5 6.5
David S. Goyer
Hit and miss
First 5 6.2+0.6Latest 5 6.8
Morgan Freeman
Lost the touch
First 5 7.2−1.2Latest 5 6.0
Matt Damon
All over the map
First 5 6.7+0.1Latest 5 6.8
Gary Oldman
Glory days
First 5 7.1−1.1Latest 5 6.0