Christopher Nolan has built one of the most closely watched filmographies of the 21st century, and a Letterboxd ranking offers a fresh look at how his 13 feature-length films stack up with users. The list uses each movie’s average score out of 5, and when two titles are tied, the one with more fan ratings lands higher. According to the report, the results may surprise viewers who have strong personal favorites among Nolan’s work.
At the bottom of the ranking is Following, Nolan’s 1998 debut, which earned a 3.5/5. The low-budget black-and-white thriller follows a young writer in London who starts trailing strangers for inspiration before being pulled into a criminal world built on deception, burglary, and voyeurism. The article notes that the film already contains many of the director’s recurring ideas, including memory, identity, and nonlinear storytelling, even if it lacks the scale and visibility of his later releases.
Also sitting at 3.5/5 is Tenet, the 2020 sci-fi action film that imagines a future shaped by environmental collapse and a device capable of reversing entropy. In the story, John David Washington plays a CIA agent known as the Protagonist, who is recruited by the secretive Tenet organization to stop Andrei Sator, played by Kenneth Branagh, from assembling a doomsday weapon. The report describes the film as one of Nolan’s most intricate time-bending experiments, built around “inversion” technology that lets characters and objects move backward through time while everything else moves forward.
The ranking reflects the range of Nolan’s career, from a scrappy first feature that helped establish his style to a large-scale blockbuster that pushed his fascination with time even further. While the article emphasizes that fans will likely disagree about the order, it presents the list as a snapshot of how Letterboxd users currently value the director’s films across his evolving body of work.
Source: collider.com
