While he is consistently reviewed positively, score wise he's never gotten anything close to this. His previous highest MC was an 82 for The Dark Knight.

Most overrated filmmaker of the past 30 years.

Yeah, it's a wonderful movie. Though... I have to agree partially with Lawlight in this subject. Which is, blockbusters are bound to have a hard time with reviews. 

I studied film for a time in college and from who I talked to who has studied it for years...yes. Oh goodness yes are there biases. Your "Oscar Bait" movies are long running staples that get doted on by critics, sometimes despite viewers bemoaning them. And yes, big blockbusters or mainstream stuff usually gets a harder time. Hell, you want clear evidence of biases, look no further than this: in the entire history of the award, only ONE speculative fiction film (horror, SciFi, or Fantasy) has ever received Best Picture, and that's Return of the King. Next to none have been nominated.

Looks like you don't know the meaning of blockbuster.

Thank you. Nolan finally gave in and did an Oscar bait movie but someone should have told him that WW2 movies aren't the in thing anymore - should have a movie about the struggle of black people to get a sure-fire nomination.

I can't agree with that, there are tons of blockbusters with high scores, including many mediocre superhero movies. Of course critics do value more films made with artistic purposes than movies made to be the equivalent of a theme park roller coaster, but that's because they do understand what cinema is about.

But you frequently show little sensibility and little understanding about what good cinema is, also you talk like only critics liked Manchester By the Sea which is far from reality. With a quick look I saw the movie has an 8 on Imdb from almost 150k votes, it also has a 8.2 of userscore in metacritic, a 4/5 from the users of Rottentomatoes and is included in the Top 10 favourite movies of 2016 by the users of Filmaffinity (Placed 4th on the list)

I like Nolan, especially Prestige, Dark Knight, and Inception, so I trust this will deliver what I want.

Problem is that I don't really think that's what cinema is. I mean, we need both. Films with artistic value, which I can surely appreciate, and films with no more purpose that entertain. And I feel that both are valid and they both have its merits. It's just that I feel that, for a movie to earn massive praise (and I mean similar praise to Boyhood, Moonlight, Godfather...), they have to be thoughtful, reflexive, realistic dramas XD. A blockbustery action movie, with no other purpose that entertain (and there are good and bad ways to do that), is never gonna get that level of praise. Even if characters, action, cinematography, etc... is spot on.