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Inception

Crit

Wow. This is a mindfuck like your mind has never been fucked--and I mean that in a good way. I predict that this will be the year's #1-selling DVD, because anyone who likes it is going to watch it repeatedly to have a fighting chance of understanding the ornate and thoroughly implausible plot. This is in complexity to Christopher Nolan's earlier Memento as Dostoevsky is to O. Henry. If I had one complaint, it would be that it's more of an action movie than seems strictly necessary, but given that it's action on four nested levels of un/consciousness, I guess that's a cavil. Ellen Page may be in a tad over her head, too--but on the other hand, it's good to have someone as grounded in what we think of as the real world, so that quasi-criticism may be wrongheaded.

Trailers

• The Town--Another Boston cop story, but what a cast: Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Ben Affleck, and (also in Inception) the always welcome Pete Postlethwaite.
• Due Date--Someone apparently thought that Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis would make a perfect pairing in one of those ridiculous-meets-sublime unwilling-buddies road movies. Perhaps so, but the trailer doesn't make a case for the proposal.