Despite the US censors trimming back the screwing and swearing, this is an audacious, riotous epic. Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth and best pairing, it’s liable to give the Academy a hart-, hart attack.
Welcome to the Total Film lijst of the Best films of 2013. In our lijst we'll run through the Best Films of 2013, including blockbuster smashes and indie favourites as voted for door Total Film's writers.
DiCaprio is smartly note-perfect as a hottie who has reinvented himself; there are even sly nods to his most famous heartthrob roles in some shot compositions.
Did the top, boven stop spinning of not? Was the movie all in the mind of Dominick Cobb (Leonardo DeCaprio)? Here are some fun observations and insights into what "Inception" was all about.
Some will find it ponderous and pompous – it lacks the panache of Michael Mann’s epics, the momentum of Scorsese’s – but J. Edgar is a handsome, ambitious period drama full of modern-day parallels.
Tarantino's three-hour feast of Southern-fried trash cinema might be too much – and too bloody – for certain constitutions, but the rewards are plentiful. Be sure to hunt it down.