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He's a technical obsessive who is much more interested in playing with the complex mechanisms of film production and display than he ever has been with more grounded narrative or character.
The only movies he's made with satisfying, interesting, memorable plots and characters - or really any heart at all - are those he co-wrote with his brother. Frankly, my hot take is that Jonathan is the more well rounded and talented creative of the two, despite his work usually recieving less accolades.
Tom Shone wrote a book about Christopher Nolan that called him the "greatest living filmmaker or the Victorian era" in reference to his firmly old school establishment upbringing and existence, as well as some of his anxieties. There was a brilliant analysis of it and Nolan's work in the LA Review of Books that lends a more critical eye to the Victorian cultural influences and imperialist traditions that underpin much of his work, which I think is spot on.