He’s still a young actor, but DiCaprio has racked up a boatload of great performances.

In the new psychological thriller “Inception,” Leonardo DiCaprio plays a man whose identity is problematic. Who he is depends on when and where you meet him. It’s the kind of subtle, shape-shifting role he has played repeatedly and well as he climbed from the TV sitcom ghetto to become a great actor who is also a movie star.

Twenty years into his film acting career, he’s already earned three Academy Award nominations, and more than $1.5 billion in domestic box-office grosses. Though he has, we hope, many decades of work ahead of him, the 35-year-old actor is ripe for a midcareer retrospective. Here, in no particular order, are 10 of his finest performances. [Read more...]