10 Most Rewatchable Films This Decade (So Far)

7. Inception

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Inception might not be the most cerebral film of all time, but as big budget blockbusters go it's certainly more intellectually challenging than most (perhaps only Fight Club beats it when it comes to big budget films which you can't just zone out to and require a bit of thinking to figure out).

Christopher Nolan's dream heist movie injected the mainstream with a fresh approach to blockbusters, as Leonardo diCaprio ventures into the subconscious of an heir to a large business conglomerate in order to implant an idea. Nolan stages the heist in a series of tiered and interlocking set pieces, each complete with increasingly impressive action sequences which rely on practical effects (the rotating hotel corridor fight remaining one of the coolest action scenes of all time).

Audiences might have seen it for the spectacular visuals, but they returned to it again and again in order to try and unravel the multi-layered structure and reveal the core. But most of all they just wanted to answer the burning question left by the film's closing shot of the spinning top, deliberately left ambiguous precisely to keep people returning to the film time and again.

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