Inception is a film on how awesome the people who make films are. Once you realize that, you can't unsee how much of a self masturbatory piece it is. It shitting on the entire cast for basic teenager philosophy question sours it even more.
I think inception, the prestige and interstellar are good films.
Christopher Nolan's writing is very literal and obvious in some ways and I think people miss the poetry and subtlety that he also creates with his filmmaking style. For example, inception creates a clear distinction between when you're inside a dream and when you aren't, but throws it overboard with the ambiguous ending. Then there is the well noted clue of Cobb's wedding ring that everyone will have noticed or heard.
But then there is the fact that there are moments that are supposed to be compeltely real events, and you take them as real events, that make no sense outside of a dream. Like the chase sequence in Mombasa, where Cobb has to squeeze his face through an alley. And when he does there immediately is a car waiting from a strange benefactor. Somehow Nolan's cinematography lets people swear its a non dream scenario, despite the literal action being a complete dream sequence if you read it off a page.
Interstellar is stellar for putting to film some scientific concepts that normally get handwaved away in space movies even if it is hampered by hathaways poor performance and the sappy love theme.
The prestige is a pretty good book, but creating the prestige movie from it is very interesting. Nothing tells you more about a film maker then when they turn a book into a movie. Because it lets you see every choice made.
In the book, the magicians are corny and silly in some ways. They shout from the audience how a trick is done. They deface each other's announcement boards. One gets control over the others diary and rewrites bits and puts in bad french to make him look more illiterate. While at the same time it's essentially a ghost story. Where the movie circles around the duplicating machine and the intentional use to frame a magician, the book has a machine that copies a person, but then leaves behind an empty husk of a body (no soul).
It's seen throughout his movies, his belief that there is nothing more than the physical. Whether it's interstellar and all the mystical moments from ghost in the bedroom, or weird touch upon arriving near gargantua, it's all just the self, the physical. There is a satanic element to the glorification of the self in it, or a redditor quality if you like.
That's why he is the worst director possible to take on the odyssey. If you want some blackified take on it, give it to spike lee or something.