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The "it's only a dream" plot twist has been done to death, but here comes Dark Knight auteur Christopher Nolan with a fresh take. The movie is Inception and it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a — what exactly? He could be a special agent of the mind, able to hack into your dreams Matrix-style and abscond with your deepest secrets. Or maybe that's what he was, before he got trapped in his own never-ending nightmare. One of the joys of Inception is that it's sure to evoke more film-geek theorizing than any movie in years.
This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.