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Tenet Movie Review : Nolan’s complex yet visually stunning cinematic experience

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Tenet First Reviews: A Beautiful, Spectacular Head-Scratcher

Critics say christopher nolan's 007-meets- minority report sci-fi thriller is tricky to decipher but full of mind-blowing action..

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One of the most anticipated movies of 2020, and one of the few tentpole releases still opening this year, Christoper Nolan’s Tenet is… Christopher Nolan’s Tenet . That is to say, based on the mostly-positive first reviews of the sci-fi spy thriller, you know what you’re getting into, but also you have no idea. The movie, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, appears to be another difficult one to describe, plot-wise, in part because of spoilers, but it’s also celebrated for its action and mind-blowing effects, even if you don’t care about any of the characters. And while some critics suggest the film needs to be seen on the big screen, we encourage you to check here for the latest information on how movie theaters are implementing new safety regulations in light of COVID-19.

With that said, here’s what critics are saying about Tenet :

How does it compare to the rest of Nolan’s filmography ?

It’s one of his most daring sci-fi narratives yet, and the results are truly phenomenal. – Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

Tenet exceeds our already sky-high expectations… It is undeniably the most audacious film of his career – which is saying something. – James Mottram, South China Morning Post

Tenet is as intricately and exquisitely designed as Nolan’s earlier work. It boasts some of the most spectacular, memorable set-pieces of his career. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

Tenet is not Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, but it is another thrilling entry into his canon. – Matt Purslow, IGN

Tenet is the first time I felt he gets too carried away with his own concept. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

So what is it about, anyway ?

What’s narratively most interesting about it is strictly off-limits in any pre-screening discussion. – Guy Lodge, Variety

We’re not even sure we could spoil this one if we tried. – Simon Miraudo, Student Edge

The palindromic title has some narrative correlation — albeit in an exhausting, rather joyless way. – Mike McCahill, IndieWire

Can we expect another mind-bending delight?

If Nolan’s Inception baked your noodle, prepare for a whole new level of bewilderment. – Andy Lea, Daily Star

Tenet will have you saying “Wow,” but also “Huh?,” “Wha …?” and “WTF??!!!” – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

Tenet is not in itself that difficult to understand: It’s more convoluted than it is complex, wider than it is deep, and there’s more linearity to its form than you might guess. – Guy Lodge, Variety

The fun with Tenet lies not in trying to decipher the whats or the whys but in simply admiring the how. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

I watched the movie twice for this review, and still feel very confused about what is supposed to be going on and why. – Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter

Is it more about the visuals?

Tenet frequently delivers mind-blowing moments that are unlike anything you’ve seen (or even thought about) before. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

Tenet is best approached as an experience to be felt rather than comprehensively understood. Sit back, relax and prepare to have your mind blown. – James Mottram, South China Morning Post

An absolute treat as a Movie Event… Tenet ’s deployment of stupefying practical special effects is pure wizardry. – Shannon Conellan, Mashable

Nolan’s commitment to shooting practically achieves an effect akin to first seeing the T-Rex stomp onscreen in Jurassic Park – it’s a film that shows you the impossible in a way that’s indistinguishable from reality. – Jordan Farley, Total Film

Take away the time-bending gimmick, and Tenet is a series of timidly generic set pieces: heists, car chases, bomb disposals, more heists… but gosh, does he blow stuff up good. – Jessica Kiang, New York Times

How is the action ?

The action exceeds anything Nolan has ever done before. – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

The sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of his screenplay — or perhaps simply to underline that they don’t matter all that much. – Guy Lodge, Variety

If Nolan has out-Nolaned himself, it’s in the action set-pieces which, despite being of head-scrambling technical intricacy, are sharper than Occam’s razor and carried off with astonishing economy. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

Big, bombastic and does everything with the most epic scale possible. It’s a lot like being punched in the face by Cinema™, in the best and worst ways. – Tom Beasley, Flickering Myth

Are the stakes compelling ?

It’s the rare action film where the characters don’t just say the world will end if they fail in their mission – you feel it, too. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

Tenet ’s stakes are too high, perhaps, to really have any emotional impact. – Rosie Fletcher, Den of Geek

What is the movie reminiscent of ?

Tenet revisits the terrain of 2000’s Memento with more money… yet plot-wise, Tenet has more in common with Minority Report . – Mike McCahill, IndieWire

Tenet can feel like a $200 million remake of Primer , with a fiendishly brilliant but confounding narrative that practically demands one or two rewatches to fully appreciate the big picture. – Jordan Farley, Total Film

It may echo the cleverness of Rian Johnson’s Looper and Shane Carruth’s Primer in its dizzying disregard for linear chronology, but the plotting is muddled rather than complex. – Nicholas Barber, The Wrap

It’s reminiscent of Steven Knight’s Serenity …influences range from La Jetée to From Russia With Love . – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

But what does it really feel like ?

Nolan has made his own Bond film here, borrowing everything he likes about it, binning everything he doesn’t, then Nolaning it all up. – Alex Godfrey, Empire Magazine

The fanciest James Bond romp you ever did see, complete with dizzy global location-hopping, car chases that slip and loop like spaghetti, and bespoke tailoring you actually want to reach into the screen and stroke. – Guy Lodge, Variety

This is absolutely Nolan delivering his James Bond movie, only Bond never had to deal with inverted bullets. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

How is the cast ?

David Washington is rock solid in the lead role… Robert Pattinson brings his A-game. – Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

Robert Pattinson puts in a truly electrifying turn. – Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

Only Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh made quite an impression in their respective roles. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

Branagh is unexpectedly fearsome. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

But do we care about their characters enough ?

Though leads John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki bring a level of solid integrity to their characters while wrapped up in flawless costumes, we’re left without any idea of who they actually are. – Shannon Conellan, Mashable

Tenet suggests Nolan no longer has any interest in human beings beyond assets on a poster or dots on a diagram. – Simon Miraudo, Student Edge

Tenet is by no means a movie about race. But Washington does appear to lean into what his race brings to the role. – Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Toronto

What are the movie’s biggest issues ?

Tenet ’s coldness is what keeps it just short of greatness… the viewer’s investment is purely intellectual. – Laura Potier, Starburst

[It] feels strangely hollow and coldly detached. So detached to the point that Nolan’s otherwise great acting ensemble fails to connect emotionally. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

It’s hard to work out what’s happening. It’s harder still to care. – Donald Clarke, Irish Times

For a film which prides itself on its innovative outlook, its portrayal of gender roles can feel surprisingly old-fashioned. – Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle

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Do we need to see it in a theater (if we can) ?

This is certainly the biggest bang for your buck of the year so far. See it on the biggest screen you can with the very best sound system. – Rosie Fletcher, Den of Geek

Viewed solely from its technical point-of-view… This is a must-see on the biggest screen possible. – Casey Chong, Casey’s Movie Mania

It’s best experienced in a huge, dark room. – Matt Purslow, IGN

Demands to be seen in a cinema, and on the biggest possible screen… But Tenet will later thrive in home viewing formats, giving viewers the chance to pause and go back over tricky passages. – Jonathan Romney, Los Angeles Times

[Note: Information on movie theater safety precautions can be found here .]

Tenet will debut in several global markets on August 26-28 and open in limited theaters in the U.S. on September 3 before expanding wider around the world.

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For transparency’s sake, it feels important to state that this film was screened for limited press in Chicago with extreme precautions that simply won’t be in place for most ticket buyers at least for weeks, including 1% capacity of a huge, sanitized theater first thing in the morning. The intent of this review is not to encourage or discourage anyone from attending a theatrical screening at this specific time. It is an analysis of the work itself for posterity.

No one could possibly mistake “Tenet” as being by anyone but Christopher Nolan . First, it has the kind of budget that only Nolan could get for an original screenplay. There’s so much money in every bursting frame of this opulent film that a scene in which gold bars are literally dumped on a runway feels almost like a self-referential wink. Second, it contains one of those time-twisting narratives that have defined the Nolan brand, one that blends robust action sequences with high-concept stories that viewers have to legitimately strain to follow. Finally, at times, it even seems to echo previous Nolan projects like an album of remastered greatest hits. There are war action scenes that recall “ Dunkirk ,” an espionage narrative that feels like “ Inception ,” and even a whole lot of people talking through masks a la Bane in “ The Dark Knight Rises .” It is 100% designed as an experience for people who have unpacked films like “ The Prestige ” and “ Memento ” late into the night, hoping to give Nolan fans more to chew on than ever before. More certainly seems to be the operating principle of “Tenet,” even if the chewing can get exhausting.

[Note: Spoilers will be incredibly light but if you want to go in completely unvarnished as many Nolan fans do, you’ve been warned.]

“Tenet” wastes no time, dropping viewers into an attack on a symphony performance in Kiev and barely allowing anyone to get oriented. One of the agents sent in to retrieve a high-profile asset during the assault is a man known only as The Protagonist ( John David Washington , proving more than capable of carrying a blockbuster film with his charismatic performance). Our hero is captured by the enemy, tortured, and takes a cyanide capsule, as he was ordered to do in training. He survives, and his allegiance to the system and his orders leads to a promotion of sorts, a top-secret assignment that involves a new technology that has the potential to literally rewrite human history.

The Protagonist is taken to a remote facility and introduced to the concept of inverted objects. We look at an object and it is traveling forward through time along with us. That’s obvious from elementary school science class. But what if an object could go in the other direction through history instead? Apparently, objects have been doing exactly this, and the Powers That Be need to control it because if a bullet could be sent back through time, what happens if a nuclear weapon takes the same trip?

Teaming up with a mysterious partner named Neil (a charming Robert Pattinson ), our hero tracks inverted objects to a villainous Russian arms dealer named Andrei ( Kenneth Branagh ). To get closer to this mega-wealthy madman, The Protagonist uses Andrei’s wife Kat ( Elizabeth Debicki ), who loathes her abusive husband but is being blackmailed into staying with him via threats that she will lose her son if she doesn’t do exactly what he says. On a very basic level, “Tenet” is about the extremes of unmonitored power. When one becomes so rich and powerful that they can literally shape world events, why not try to shape world history too? Sound a little familiar? Andrei is very much cut from the same cloth as classic Bond villains, complete with unchecked opulence, Russian accent and snarling line delivery. Blend Nolan’s obsession with time-twisting high concepts and his love of classic action construction and you have some idea what “Tenet” feels like.

However, there’s never been a Bond movie so stuffed with expository dialogue. “Tenet” spends roughly two hours of its 150-minute run time explaining what is happening, why it is happening, and what might happen next. And yet even with that it’s still incredibly difficult to follow because Nolan goes so far down his own rabbit hole of time travel that one almost needs to take notes to keep up (and I still think it arguably wouldn’t all add up if they could). Scene after scene of Washington, Pattinson, Branagh, and Debicki trying to convey the plot becomes exhausting, and it's Nolan's biggest mistake. It would have been better to just leave more unsaid, and jump chaotically into the film's mood and visuals instead of so often returning to over-analyzing a plot most people still won’t be able to follow. At times, it feels like a film crafted for YouTube explainer video culture. (There’s already one online that purports to deconstruct the ending and the movie isn’t even out in most of the world.) Early in the film, the scientist who explains inversion says, "Don't try to understand, feel it," and I wished Nolan had listened to her more.

For some of his fans, this narrative assault is exactly what they’re looking for, but I prefer emotional registers in my Nolan that he seems only casually interested in here. The stakes don’t feel as high as “Dunkirk,” the maze construction isn’t as thrilling as “Inception,” and even the characters don’t feel as easy to invest in as “ Interstellar .” Almost as if he knows his puzzle box is ice cold, Nolan adds the subplot about Kat losing her son, but it’s so underdeveloped that I don’t think her kid even has a line. The kid is as much of a device as an inverted bullet.

If “Tenet” can be a hard movie to engage with emotionally or even comprehend narratively, that doesn't take away from its craftsmanship on a technical level. It’s an impressive film simply to experience, bombarding the viewer with bombastic sound design and gorgeous widescreen cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema. The movie never sags in terms of technical elements and even performance. Everyone is committed to Nolan's runaway speed. Van Hoytema's work is vibrant, Jennifer Lame's editing is tight, and the performances are all good to great. In particular, Pattinson really shines in a playful register that he's not often allowed to use.

The decision to release “Tenet” in theaters instead of VOD was controversial for many reasons, but there’s no denying that "Tenet" was conceived by Nolan to be an experience that shouldn’t be paused and needs to be projected with a speaker system turned up to 11 (even if that would have still been true if Warner Bros. had delayed the film until it was safer to see it). I almost got the sense that playing "Tenet" at a lower volume or even pausing it at home to take a break might reveal its flaws. Nolan doesn't want you to be able to to dissect it or be distracted by your phone while you watch it. The irony is that he doesn't want you to be able to rewind it. "Tenet" is a movie about momentum, reflected both in its narrative and its aesthetic, and more cracks would show without it.

Viewer response to “Tenet” will come down to how much one engages with that momentum. I expect a surprising number of people will open the door and jump out of this moving race car (look, another palindrome!) before it crosses the finish line, exhausted by a story that doesn’t make sense even as it’s trying to explain itself to you. Others will embrace the filmmaking's energy, which starts with intensity and doesn’t let up much at all. The word I kept thinking of was one I used earlier in this review: “aggressive”—that may sound like high praise to Nolan fans looking for something other than a lazy, predictable blockbuster and harsh criticism to those who aren’t looking to be left weary by a self-serious sci-fi epic. In the spirit of a film about objects moving opposite ways in time in the same space, maybe both groups are right.

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Tenet (2020)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some suggestive references and brief strong language.

150 minutes

John David Washington as The Protagonist

Robert Pattinson as Neil

Elizabeth Debicki as Kat

Kenneth Branagh as Andrei Sator

Michael Caine as Sir Michael Crosby

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ives

Dimple Kapadia as Priya

Himesh Patel as Mahir

Clémence Poésy as Laura

Andrew Howard as Stephen

Yuri Kolokolnikov as Quinton

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Jennifer Lame
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Review: In ‘Tenet,’ a time-bending thriller for bended times

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I went in fresh to “Tenet.” I didn’t have any real sense of the plot, yes, but it’s more that it had been some five months since I was last in a movie theater. That’s a long hiatus — a dark ages for sitting in the dark — for someone, anyone, used to going to the movies more days than not. The last film I had seen in a cinema, back in March, was the Vin Diesel vehicle “Bloodshot,” so you can imagine my eagerness for a new aftertaste.

It’s complicated, in a way, to parse the experience. There’s the feeling of being back in a movie theater, and then there’s the sensations particular to “Tenet.” For Christopher Nolan, whose films build their conceptual architecture around the metaphysics of movies themselves, it’s kind of one and the same. His movies are designed, from a molecular level, to unlock innate cinematic powers and glorify the almighty Big Screen — a lonely god these last few months.

As the first major film released in theaters since the pandemic began, “Tenet” has swelled in the minds of anxious moviegoers , adopting the role of savior. Nolan vs. COVID-19 is as much part of the drama of “Tenet” as anything on screen, and just as convoluted and disorienting. Seeing “Tenet” for this critic meant crossing numerous state lines and watching it at a nearly empty movie theater — a luxury of social distancing that won’t be possible for most, even in reduced capacity theaters. At its best, moviegoing has always been thrilling, even dangerous. That may be doubly so right now.

For better and worse, “Tenet” is just a movie. It won’t beat the virus and it won’t single-handedly save movie theaters. It won’t even really blow your mind. But for much of its 150-minute running time, Nolan’s globe-trotting sci-fi riff on the spy thriller will provide a dazzling escape, one dense with singular imagery and intellectual puzzles. And, perhaps most vitally, it will give a cool, brutalist refresher of the movies’ capacity for awe, for imagination, and, yes, for tiresome grandiosity. For the palindromic “Tenet,” it cuts both ways.

Naturally, “Tenet” opens on a crowded auditorium. At an opera house in Kyiv, just as the conductor is raising his baton, a barrage of bullets rings out and masked men take the stage. Outside, a squadron of covert American agents are stirred. They pick a local police patch for their shoulders, and one among them (John David Washington, known only as “the Protagonist” in the credits) maneuvers to rescue a man who sits in a closed balcony. He greets him with the coded phrase “We live in a twilight world.”

As he’s trying to stop bombs from going off in the theater, an odd thing happens. Tussling with one of the terrorists, a bullet seems to fly backward into the gun. After being taken hostage and tortured, he blacks out. When he wakes up much later, he’s told that he’s been released from the CIA and been enlisted in a shadowy organization known as Tenet. The mission goes beyond borders, he’s told. A Cold War — “ice cold” — is brewing. He’s to try to prevent World War III and an apocalypse worse than nuclear holocaust.

The details of this secret war — who’s on what side, what’s at stake — take a while to unspool. But just as Nolan’s last film, the gorgeously synchronized WWII survival tale “Dunkirk,” was arranged elementally by land, sea and air, “Tenet” is spliced between past, present and future. A heady genre movie that puts James Bond-like tropes through a collider, it’s very much a companion piece to “Inception” (a heist movie with a sci-fi spin) and just as laden with continual explanation.

The central conceit here is that a rare mineral can reverse the entropy of objects. That means time travel, inverted weapons, car chases that speed both ways and the biggest blockbuster to ever look a little like the backward-running Pharcyde music video “Drop,” by Spike Jonze. These weapons are the “detritus of a coming war,” we’re told; the future is attacking the past.

The Protagonist’s journey brings him in touch with a British fixer named Neil (a delightfully knowing and especially dashing Robert Pattinson; you want him always to say more than he does), a Mumbai arms dealer (Dimple Kapadia) and ultimately a Ukrainian oligarch named Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh). To reach the insulated Sator, the Protagonist finds an entry through his wife, Kat (Elizabeth Debicki, the film’s most suave and affecting performer), an art dealer who has come to detest her husband.

As a film, “Tenet” rumbles like a jumbo jet. Its sheer tonnage is what most strikes you. There are trucks and ships, giant turbines and helicopters, concrete masses and 747s. It’s a literally heavy movie. The settings, which span from the Amalfi Coast to the “closed cities” of Russia, give “Tenet” a technological backdrop of ecological destruction. If anything, I wish Nolan had taken his future vs. past concept further, instead of situating it so firmly in the more familiar (in movies) world of black-market weapons dealers.

“Tenet” lacks the elegant mastery of “Dunkirk” or the cosmic soulfulness of “Interstellar,” but it has a darkly grand geometry. As instruments in an abstraction, most of Nolan’s protagonists verge on the hollow. Washington glides through the film with charisma and preternatural smoothness but his character’s inner life goes unexplored. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Cobb in “Inception” wasn’t so different, but the mission plunged directly into his subconscious. Nolan, a visionary filmmaker, can sometimes be too busy conjuring visions to build a character.

Time is Nolan’s real protagonist, anyway. Its loss was the agony of “Interstellar.” A ticking clock, on three different temporal tracks, measured “Dunkirk.” In “Tenet,” it moves in circles: backward and forward like waves in the ocean. It’s a distinctive characteristic of the movies, and it’s one you can feel Nolan investigating and experimenting with. It’s easy to imagine “Tenet” was born in an editing suite, while a shot was rewound and epiphany struck.

Time has grown strangely elastic during the pandemic (as have movie release schedules). Today, yesterday and tomorrow blur together. So it’s some comfort that even still, Nolan’s clock keeps ticking.

“Tenet,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of violence and action, some suggestive references and brief strong language. Running time: 151 minutes. Three stars out of four.

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‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Grandly Entertaining, Time-Slipping Spectacle Is a Futuristic Throwback

The structural complications of Nolan's storytelling are nifty enough, but it's the muscular gusto of his filmmaking that inspires wonder.

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“ Tenet ” was already shaping up as the year’s premier event movie before a certain global pandemic turned it into something closer to a holy grail: an unknown, unattainable object of intrigue, its enigmatic allure intensifying as it moved further and further away on the blighted release schedule. That’s an absurd way to regard any film, but amid the business-minded panic and frustration of its chronic postponement, one wonders if director Christopher Nolan was secretly at least a little amused by the heightened mystique around it all. A blockbuster artist who tends to cocoon his works in ceremonial secrecy at the best of times, he has wound up releasing his 11th feature into an aptly disordered environment. A concrete cornucopia of global chaos and threat, in which humanity’s survival depends on the minor matter of reshaping time and space, “Tenet” looks well suited to an anxious age.

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That the film turns out to be more straightforward — however ornately presented — than our wildest speculation about it is quite disarming. Like “Inception,” which used the essential language of the heist film as an organizing structure for Nolan’s peculiar fixations of chronology and consciousness, “Tenet” tricks out the spy thriller with expanded science-fiction parameters to return to those pet themes.

Again, his musings are rooted more in physics than philosophy or psychology, with the film’s grabby hook — that you can change the world not by traveling through time, but inverting it — explored in terms of how it practically works, not how it makes anyone feel. If this tendency leads Nolan’s critics to label him a chilly filmmaker, there’s the barest hint of knowing silliness to “Tenet” that warms it up. It plays best when it stops showing us its work and morphs into the fanciest James Bond romp you ever did see, complete with dizzy global location-hopping, car chases that slip and loop like spaghetti, and bespoke tailoring you actually want to reach into the screen and stroke.

As for what it’s actually about, “Tenet” places any reviewer in a familiar bind with Nolan: What’s narratively most interesting about it is strictly off-limits in any pre-screening discussion. A pounding introductory set-piece plunges us into a packed Kiev opera house as it falls prey to a terrorist heist, infiltrated in turn by an unnamed CIA agent ( John David Washington ) to retrieve some manner of asset. Nolan’s script is evasive and sketchy on details at first, which may lead you to think this immersively choreographed scene is just a bit of formal flexing before the story begins in earnest. (The first sound we hear in the film, after all, is that of an orchestra tuning up, before composer Ludwig Göransson — more than ably filling in for Nolan standby Hans Zimmer — thunders in with his own thrilling percussive clatter.)

Yet this apparent prologue is also rife with clues and cues for later reference, as befits a film in which present, past and future aren’t always neatly sequential, but sometimes as swiftly cut through as three lanes on a fast-moving highway. Following the Kiev operation, Washington’s stoically imposing character — only ever identified as the Protagonist — is promptly released from the CIA and into a shadowy, less identifiable international espionage organization. Allied with flip, knowing English handler Neil ( Robert Pattinson ), about whom we learn little but his cool knack for working an upturned blazer collar, he’s set on a mission that is variously described as preventing World War III and saving the world altogether — such generically high-stakes objectives that you can’t help wondering if Nolan is taking us, and indeed his bemused Protagonist, for a ride.

Either way, the quest shuttles us on a trail of elaborately planted MacGuffins from India to Estonia, from the Bay of Naples to the notorious “closed cities” of Russia. (In these, Nathan Crowley’s production design wittily plays off the retro-futurism of their Brutalist architecture to reflect the film’s own overlaid timelines.) A sinister whisper network of international arms dealers emerges, with one of them, Priya (the wonderful Dimple Kapadia, in the film’s wiliest performance) serving principally to coax the Protagonist through the corridors of Nolan’s storytelling. But the ultimate target is Sator (Kenneth Branagh, wielding another ripe cod-Russian accent), a bottomlessly evil oligarch who may or may not hold the world in his clammy hands — often raised in anger to his estranged but trapped wife Kat ( Elizabeth Debicki ), a brittle art auctioneer for whom the script permits its Protagonist the bare minimum of feeling.

Written this way, the setup sounds like standard-issue Ian Fleming stuff. The trick, of course, lies in that misty, sexy concept of time inversion, which is better seen on the screen than explained on the page — though Nolan, as is his wont as a screenwriter, doesn’t skimp on slightly stodgy, film-pausing explanations either. Like “Inception,” it’s a film where well-informed characters often ask questions (“Do you know what a freeport is?” “You’re familiar with the Manhattan Project?”) to which they immediately supply a detailed answer. As much verbiage as Nolan devotes to unpicking his jazziest ideas, the excitement is all in their cinematic illustration: The film’s eerie images of bullets hurtling backwards through inverted air (the detritus of a coming war, we’re told) are more striking than the neat theory behind their trajectory.

“Don’t try to understand it, feel it,” a cryptic scientist (Clémence Poésy) counsels the Protagonist early on, and whether Nolan intends it or not, this feels like solid advice for the viewer too. “Tenet” is not in itself that difficult to understand: It’s more convoluted than it is complex, wider than it is deep, and there’s more linearity to its form than you might guess, though it offers some elegantly executed structural figure-eights along the way. (Indie-trained editor Jennifer Lame, new to Nolan’s crew, pulls off these coups with a deft, surprising lack of fuss and flash.)

All of which is to say that precisely tracing the dense graph of the plotting in “Tenet” feels like work at the expense of its more sensory, movie-movie pleasures. Those range from the propulsive tumble of its fight sequences to the mesmerizing, carved-in-marble beauty of its stars, clothed in an infinite supply of cloud-soft, immaculately cinched suiting by costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and slicked in the oily gloss of Hoyte van Hoytema’s black-and-blue lensing.

The sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of his screenplay — or perhaps simply to underline that they don’t matter all that much. “Tenet” is no holy grail, but for all its stern, solemn posing, it’s dizzy, expensive, bang-up entertainment of both the old and new school. Right now, as it belatedly crashes a dormant global release calendar, it seems something of a time inversion in itself.

Reviewed at BFI Imax, London, Aug. 20, 2020. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 150 MIN.

Production: A Warner Bros. presentation of a Syncopy production. Producers: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan. Executive producer: Thomas Hayslip. Co-producer: Andy Thompson.
Crew: Director, writer: Christopher Nolan. Camera: Hoyte van Hoytema. Editor: Jennifer Lame. Music: Ludwig Göransson.
With: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Martin Donovan.

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Lots of action and violence; little blood. Guns and shooting, battle scenes, bea

Infrequent strong language includes "bitch," "s--t," and one use of "f--king." C

Social drinking (wine). In a meeting, the drink is vodka. A character takes a da

A female character wears a bikini. Mild flirtation.

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You are the main character of your own story, and you're capable of more than yo

The Protagonist acts with empathy. Neil uses his skills and teamwork to solve pr

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Lots of action and violence; little blood. Guns and shooting, battle scenes, beatings, domestic abuse and threats, car chases, crashes, and fires. The threat of torture is explained in graphic terms. A character dies by suicide. Characters are arms dealers, and nuclear weapons are a part of the story.

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The Protagonist acts with empathy. Neil uses his skills and teamwork to solve problems. Kat shows courage, prioritizing the common good over loyalty to her husband.

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Most characters are White men, but the lead is played by John David Washington, who's Black. He demonstrates courage and integrity and doesn't fall into any stereotypes. Women have less to do: The lead female character is abused by her husband, and though she gets some agency near the end of the film, others, like supporting character Priya, have no impact on the plot.

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Parents need to know that Tenet is a spy action movie directed by Christopher Nolan . John David Washington stars as an international secret agent who must save the world from World War III. There's a lot of action and fighting throughout the film. It's mostly bloodless, but there are guns, shootings, explosions, crashes, and beatings. Domestic abuse and child custody are big parts of the storyline. The main message is about being the hero of your own story, and characters demonstrate teamwork, perseverance, courage, curiosity, integrity, and empathy. The Protagonist (Washington) acts with empathy, Neil ( Robert Pattinson ) uses his skills and teamwork to solve problems, and Kat ( Elizabeth Debicki ) shows courage in the face of an abusive husband. Strong language is infrequent, so when it comes, it's noticeable: Expect to hear "f--king bitch," "s--t," "damn," "hell" etc. Characters drink socially (wine, vodka), and a character dies by suicide. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Most Confusing Movie I Have Ever Seen, But In a Cool Way

Nolan's genius at it's best. excellent watch., what's the story.

In TENET, a CIA operative known as The Protagonist ( John David Washington ) is given a secret mission to prevent World War III. As he moves deep into the world of international espionage and arms dealers, he investigates how a Russian oligarch ( Kenneth Branagh ) came into possession of a time-based weapon of the future. Robert Pattinson , Elizabeth Debicki , Michael Caine , and Clémence Poésy co-star.

Is It Any Good?

Cinematic master of time manipulation Christopher Nolan has created the Rubik's Cube of time travel movies. Many time travel fans love to study and analyze the genre's fictional rules, and Tenet might become a template to compare others against. Nolan dips into physics and quantum theory -- and he doesn't spend time explaining anything clearly. And although the production values are excellent overall, with great world building and viscerally exciting special effects and design, it doesn't help that audio involving key details is muffled by gas masks, spoken through walkie-talkies, etc.

While much of the movie is a whirlwind of "what?," the ending suggests that much of the complexity isn't as relevant to the overall point. You can enjoy it at the level of your choosing: If you want to crunch around in the minutiae, there's ample material, but if you want to jump to the takeaway, then it plays much more like a James Bond movie with a lot of complicated dialogue. It definitely sets up the possibility of a sequel, and it seems like the amount of details dumped on audience members are meant to entice viewers to rewatch it again and again.

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Movie Details

In theaters : September 3, 2020
On DVD or streaming : December 15, 2020
Cast : John David Washington , Robert Pattinson , Elizabeth Debicki
Director : Christopher Nolan
Inclusion Information : Black actors, Female actors
Studio : Warner Bros.
Genre : Action/Adventure
Topics : Adventures , Great Boy Role Models
Character Strengths : Courage , Curiosity , Integrity , Perseverance , Teamwork
Run time : 150 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : violence and intense action
Award : Academy Award
Last updated : June 10, 2024

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Tenet release date in India is December 4 in cinemas
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Tenet reviews, box office have been quite average

Tenet has finally come to India. More than three months since its global premiere, Christopher Nolan's latest film will finally roll into Indian cinemas this week. Thanks, COVID-19. If you've been waiting to catch Tenet in India, you can finally do so — in English, Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu. The IMAX experience is only available in English though. Tenet is even more special for Nolan fans in India, given that it was shot in India and even stars a couple of veteran Indian actors. But due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we've been unable to see what Nolan does with Mumbai. And even now, it's a gamble.

From Tenet to Durgamati , What to Watch in December

The anticipation for Tenet is so high that some screens have been fully booked — the limit they are allowed to anyway, with a 50 percent cap. Being in an indoor AC environment where social distancing guidelines are meaningless and with strangers who might take off their masks to eat and drink poses a great risk, as we've discussed before . And you shouldn't risk getting COVID (and giving it to others) to watch a movie. Especially now that Tenet's Blu-ray and digital release on international platforms is less than two weeks away. Sure, you will have to pay more, but not getting COVID is priceless.

Yes, you won't get access to local-language dubbed versions at home, but you won't have to wait too long for that either. Warner Bros. India usually does Blu-ray releases two months of the theatrical release. You already waited a few months, what's a couple of months more?

Now that Tenet is around the corner, here's everything you need to know — no spoilers here — about Nolan's latest film.

Tenet release date in India

Christopher Nolan's latest movie, Tenet, is out Friday, December 4 in cinemas across India.

This comes a month after Maharashtra — the state with the most screens in India — allowed cinemas to reopen. Tenet was originally slated to release in July, but was then delayed multiple times due to the pandemic , before settling on a late August bow in many markets. But Indian theatres were still shut then, and Warner Bros. India had to wait before they could bring the Nolan film here.

Tenet will be available in regular 2D and IMAX 2D only. There's no 3D option because Nolan isn't a fan of 3D.

Tenet India tickets

Ticket bookings for Tenet opened last Friday and are now available with all major cinema chains — PVR Cinemas, INOX, Cinepolis, and Carnival Cinemas — in cities across India. Tickets are available on BookMyShow, Paytm, and the official websites of the aforementioned players.

Depending on where you live, which format you opt for, and your show time, you are looking between Rs. 80 – Rs. 750 for Tenet in 2D, and between Rs. 170 – Rs. 750 for an IMAX experience.

John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) is the protagonist in Tenet. The cast also includes Robert Pattinson (The Batman), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Clémence Poésy (The Tunnel), Dimple Kapadia (Dil Chahta Hai), Martin Donovan (Weeds), Fiona Dourif (Cult of Chucky), Yuri Kolokolnikov (Game of Thrones), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Denzil Smith (The Lunchbox), Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express), and Michael Caine (The Dark Knight).

Tenet movie trailer

The first teaser trailer for Tenet was released in August 2019, and screened only theatrically in front of Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw in select theatres in the US. The same teaser was screened in front of Joker IMAX screenings in October 2019 in India.

In December 2019, Warner Bros. released the first Tenet trailer for everyone online, which introduced the marketing tagline (“Time runs out”) and set up the film's confusing world (some things move backwards) and stakes (World War III). Later that month, a six-minute prologue was unveiled in front of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in select IMAX theatres in the US, which came to India with Birds of Prey IMAX screenings in February 2020.

Warner Bros. gave us a second Tenet trailer back in May — when Nolan was still insisting on a July release date for the film — which revealed that the weird backward moment is because the film deals with time inversion, not time travel. It even came with a tutorial of sorts, as Washington's character “caught” a bullet instead of shooting it.

A final trailer for Tenet followed in August as the film geared up for its release internationally. Set to Travis Scott's new single for the Tenet soundtrack, “The Plan”, the final Tenet trailer came up with more explanations for how its world works and teased the movie's endgame.

Tenet movie box office

At the time of writing, Tenet has made over $357.8 million (about Rs. 2,632 crores) globally. That's a far cry from what Nolan's films have made in the past, with the film's $56.9 million-haul in the US — traditionally the single biggest market for Hollywood movies, and around 50 percent of the total gross — considered a major disappointment.

But it's worth noting that there is no context for box office success during a global pandemic. Nolan said as much when he defended the worldwide box office haul. The Tenet writer-director said he was “ thrilled ” with the $350-million+ take and added: “But I am worried that the studios are drawing the wrong conclusions from our release – that rather than looking at where the film has worked well and how that can provide them with much needed revenue, they're looking at where it hasn't lived up to pre-COVID expectations and will start using that as an excuse to make exhibition take all the losses from the pandemic instead of getting in the game and adapting – or rebuilding our business, in other words.”

Tenet review

The latest Nolan film has a 71 percent score and a 6.9/10 average rating on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , based on the opinions of 280 critics. On fellow review aggregator Metacritic , Tenet has a “generally favourable” 69 score, based on 47 critic reviews.

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Tenet review: Christopher Nolan's most confusing film, but the most thrilling to get lost in

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Dir: Christopher Nolan. Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine. 12A cert, 150 mins

Will Tenet save cinema? We’ve somehow let everything ride on a single film, the first studio tentpole to be released since the pandemic began. We’re convinced it can take the pressure. Christopher Nolan’ s films have always been great, lumbering beasts of cinema – super-sized, puzzle-box epics that have become irresistible box office draws. Surely, people will come masked and in droves, ready to dissect it as furiously as they did with Inception or Interstellar ?

And there’s Nolan himself, the purist who made a dogged last stand against the digital release model. Tenet will be seen in cinemas, he declared, or it will not be seen at all. It’s a shame that the narrative around its release will inevitably cloud any real discussion of the film’s merits. Tenet is as intricately and exquisitely designed as Nolan’s earlier work. It boasts some of the most spectacular, memorable set-pieces of his career.

Ostensibly an espionage thriller, it opens on a nameless figure ( BlacKkKlansman ’s John David Washington), whose commitment to his work sees him recruited by a mystery organisation, then sent off into the world with a single palindrome: “Tenet”. This word will “open the right doors and some of the wrong ones, too”. He crosses paths with allies (Robert Pattinson’s Neil, and Michael Caine in a brief cameo) and foes (Kenneth Branagh’s Andrei Sator, with a Russian accent as thick as borscht).

He stumbles into a great, yawning chasm of possibility and probability – namely, the discovery that objects can travel forwards and backwards through time, carving out wide channels in the fabric of reality. It’s a time travel film. But, also, as the director himself insists, not a time travel film. It’s the most complex of Nolan’s contraptions. It can be frightening. It can be claustrophobic. At times, it verges on the incomprehensible. We expect the complex and byzantine from Nolan’s work. But here, with an idea he’s wrestled with for over a decade, the director’s managed to reach new heights of obfuscation.

Nolan seems to almost revel in the futility of words here. The central conceit – that it’s possible to reverse an object’s passage through time – is easy to follow. But the director makes the smaller details deliberately hard to track, with the dialogue often delivered in whispers or from behind masks. It’s been seemingly engineered for multiple viewings.

Does it matter all that much, though? Tenet is a thrilling place to get lost in. “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it,” explains Laura (Clémence Poésy), who serves as one of the film’s exposition machines. The advice is directed as much to us as it is to the film’s hero. But while the appeal of Nolan’s films usually comes from watching all the pieces fall neatly into place, the final picture bringing a sense of order to existence, the director has found himself increasingly drawn towards chaos.

The sturdy, logical dream levels of Inception have been replaced by the bombs of Dunkirk . They whizz past, without a target or a specific purpose, guided by an invisible hand. The film sends waves of helplessness crashing over its audience. Tenet , too, has much to do with the terror of the unseen and the unknowable. Threats emerge from hidden sources, their tendrils reaching out and slowly wrapping themselves around the Earth’s circumference.

In the place of words, atmosphere thrives. Tenet is ruled by a deep, perfidious sense of tension. It’s the rare action film where the characters don’t just say the world will end if they fail in their mission – you feel it, too. Ludwig Göransson (stepping into the shoes of Nolan’s usual collaborator, Hans Zimmer) creates a score built of low, anxious vibrations that pulsate through even the most incidental of scenes. Most of the colours we see are familiar to Nolan’s worlds – yellow tones make everything feel like it’s been lightly coated in toxic smog – though one particular, showstopping scene is bathed in hellish reds and blues. The action scenes, all carefully shaped around the idea of “inverted time”, are coordinated to look like some kind of strange, modernist ballet.

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There’s something alluring about the way the surreal rubs shoulders with the usual trappings of the spy genre: the exotic locations, chilly British dames ( The Night Manager ’s Elizabeth Debicki as Kat, wife of Sator), and brash hero. Washington’s charisma is undeniable – an ideal combination of likeability and cool reserve, which the rising star delivers with Bond-like flair – though his quips can be a little predictable. “Where I’m from, you buy me dinner first,” he says to a security guard, post-pat-down. Nolan at least seems aware that the character suffers from a certain two-dimensionality. The credits simply call him “The Protagonist”.

A little harder to forgive is his script’s depiction of Kat. Nolan may have moved on from his obsession with dead wives, who haunt the edges of his frames, but his female lead is here still defined by the male figures in her life – the son she’s been separated from and the husband who holds power over her. But while Nolan finds almost nothing to say about motherhood, there’s something genuinely unnerving about Sator’s firecracker nature. Branagh is unexpectedly fearsome in the role. His violence is unpredictable, his nihilism a menace.

Nolan prides himself on these bold choices. He’s here to shake foundations. But no film could ever save the theatrical experience single-handed from the jaws of a never-ending pandemic and a cataclysmic recession. When we look back on 2020, we won’t remember what Tenet did for the film industry. We’ll remember the governments that failed their people, their economies, and the arts. Tenet is no saviour. It is, and will always be, a victim of circumstance.

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Tenet reviews roundup: Movie described as both 'ferociously entertaining' and 'grating'

Critics have a variety of opinions about Christopher Nolan's film.

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When it comes to the films of Christopher Nolan , time can be a very malleable concept. But there's no doubt we've had to wait a long while for the first reviews of his new movie Tenet . Now, however, the verdicts of critics have begun to arrive for the super-secret John David Washington -starring sci-fi-thriller, which will be released in many foreign territories Aug. 26. and debuts in the U.S. on Sept. 3.

The cast of Tenet also includes Robert Pattinson , Elizabeth Debicki , Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Himesh Patel, Nolan regular Michael Caine , and Kenneth Branagh.

Here are some of the reviews:

Variety (Guy Lodge): "The sheer meticulousness of Nolan's grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of his screenplay — or perhaps simply to underline that they don't matter all that much. Tenet is no holy grail, but for all its stern, solemn posing, it's dizzy, expensive, bang-up entertainment of both the old and new school. Right now, as it belatedly crashes a dormant global release calendar, it seems something of a time inversion in itself."

The New York Times (Jessica Kiang): "Take away the time-bending gimmick, and Tenet is a series of timidly generic set pieces: heists, car chases, bomb disposals, more heists. But then, the lie of Nolan's career has been that he makes the traditionally teenage-boy-aimed blockbuster smarter and more adult, when what he really does is ennoble the teenage boy fixations many of us adults still cherish, creating vast, sizzling conceptual landscapes in which all anyone really does is crack safes and blow stuff up. But gosh, does he blow stuff up good. And that's not nothing, right now, when it is probably scale and explosions and complex stunts, rather than Deep Meaning, that will be what gets corona-shy moviegoers to brave the multiplex...Seek it out, if only to marvel at the entertainingly inane glory of what we once had and are in danger of never having again. Well, that and the suits."

The Hollywood Reporter (Leslie Felperin): "Altogether, it makes for a chilly, cerebral film — easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."

The Telegraph (Robbie Collin): "The depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances only becomes fully apparent once you know where Tenet is going, or perhaps that should be where it's been. Still confused? Don't be. Or rather do be, and savour it. This is a film that will cause many to throw up their hands in bamboozlement – and many more, I hope, to clasp theirs in awe and delight."

Empire (Alex Godfrey): " Tenet is Bond without the baggage. Filmed in Italy, Estonia, India, Norway, the UK and the US, it's a globetrotting espionage extravaganza that does everything 007 does but without having to lean into the heritage, or indeed the clichés. Just as with Indiana Jones, for which George Lucas persuaded Bond fan Steven Spielberg they could create their own hero instead of piggybacking on someone else's, Nolan has made his own Bond film here, borrowing everything he likes about it, binning everything he doesn't, then Nolaning it all up (ie: mucking about with the fabric of time)...By the time it's done, you might not know what the hell's gone on, but it is exciting nevertheless. It is ferociously entertaining."

The Guardian (Catherine Shoard): "You exit the cinema a little less energized than you were going in. There's something grating about a film which insists on detailing its pseudo-science while also conceding you probably won't have followed a thing. We're clobbered with plot then comforted with tea-towel homilies about how what's happened has happened. The world is more than ready for a fabulous blockbuster, especially one that happens to feature face masks and chat about going back in time to avoid catastrophe. It's a real shame Tenet isn't it."

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'Mr Bachchan' X review: Fans say Ravi Teja's film is a 'test of patience'

The telugu film 'mr bachchan' hit theatres on august 15. the film, starring ravi teja in the lead, has received mixed reviews from viewers on x..

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Ravi Teja's 'Mr Bachchan' gets mixed reviews on X
Actor Bhagyashri Borse's Telugu debut has been receiving praise
Some viewers found the film a 'test of patience'

'Mr Bachchan', starring Ravi Teja, is receiving mixed responses on X. While some viewers found it a 'test of patience,' others praised it as a 'mass entertainer.' Additionally, actor Bhagyashri Borse, making her Telugu debut with the film, has garnered significant praise from fans.

Viewers shared their reviews on their respective X handles, with many praising the film's background score. Here are some of the reactions:

Watched #MrBachchan I could see that the director tried to make the film fun, but that came and hit the film in its face. First things first the film is only watchable for Ravanna, Satya and Bhagyasree. This film wanted to commercialise Raid but those elements test our patience. — Mayur Vavilla (@mayuuhuhu) August 15, 2024

Done with Mass Maha Raja @RaviTeja_offl 's #MrBachChan it's a pure mass entertainer! ðŸ‘ðŸ”å Ravi Teja brings incredible energy and screen charisma. @harish2you delivers a decent direction and storytelling. Bhagyasri Borse also stands out. Worth a watch. Rating: 3/5.âââ — ðŸæ (@MysoreJeswanth) August 15, 2024

@harish2you #Mrbachchan Super movie annawww memtal masss Ravi Anna ni elane chudam anukuna Pan India movie teyu anna next — rohitreturns___264(cwc24 champions) (@TechBit8) August 15, 2024

Done with my show, the second half stands great than first half. Worthy pre-climax and climax with an interesting story line. Blazing action episodes worked well with elevations. Good technical and production values. BGM worked well. 3.5/5.0 #MrBachchan Loved it @harish2you — ð˜¿ð™žð™áð™žð™åð™‘ð™Æ18 (@Vk18xCr7) August 15, 2024

'Mr Bachchan' clashed at the box office with Ram Pothineni and Sanjay Dutt's 'Double iSmart' . Both films graced the screens across the globe on August 15 and will enjoy an extended opening weekend in theatres.

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Tenet first reviews are in, divided critics call it ‘humorless disappointment’ and ‘grandiosely enjoyable’

The first reviews of christopher nolan’s latest film, tenet are in and critics are not very impressed..

The first reviews for Christopher Nolan’s latest science fiction adventure Tenet are in and critics are not really blown away this time. Nolan, who is known for his grand, emotional and cerebral blockbusters, was touted to reopen the theatres with Tenet, one of the biggest, most highly anticipated movies of the year, before the coronavirus put a long pause on everything.

Tenet stars John David Washington in the lead.

Fans have been keeping themselves busy trying to decode the secrets and sciences of Tenet through all these months. However, if most reviews are anything to go by, the film is rather simply understood. “That the film turns out to be more straightforward — however ornately presented — than our wildest speculation about it is quite disarming...Again, his musings are rooted more in physics than philosophy or psychology, with the film’s grabby hook — that you can change the world not by traveling through time, but inverting it — explored in terms of how it practically works, not how it makes anyone feel,” read the review in Variety .

A few critics also mentioned that the excessive extraposition can get tiring. “The film provides almost as many lines of exposition as it does flurries of bullets, with even the closing remarks of the film providing an overt explanation of the events that just transpired. It can be a bit frustrating if you’ve been paying close attention along the ride, but maybe it’s hard to fault the need. The end result, unfortunately, is a film that presents itself as more dense than it really is, off-putting for some but repetitive and predictable for those attuned the magic trick that Nolan’s attempting to pull off,” read the Slash Film review.

Indiewire review reads that there is little substance to the movie and a whole lot of noise. “The hope is Nolan can bolster that industrial process with flickers of heart, as he did sporadically in “Inception” and even 2014’s hyper-clanky “Interstellar.” With Tenet, he is ever more caught up in his own machinations: Nolan deploys his actors like spokespeople, appointed to field and deflect queries from his client base,” it read.

The Guardian ’s particularly disappointed reviewer Catherine Shoard noted, “I’m not even sure that, in five years time, it’d be worth staying up to catch on telly.”

She added, “You exit the cinema a little less energised than you were going in. There’s something grating about a film which insists on detailing its pseudo-science while also conceding you probably won’t have followed a thing. We’re clobbered with plot then comforted with tea-towel homilies about how what’s happened has happened,” it read.

John David Washington’s performance brooding performance was dubbed lacklustre by many while Robert Pattinson earned points for his charming wingman act. Others such as Dimple Kapadia and Michael Caine were merely used as agents for some extra extraposition while Kenneth Branagh played the ‘hammy’ evil villain.

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Warner Bros. recently said that it would be offering early access screenings to Tenet starting August 31 as a gesture of support to the domestic theatres in the US that are reopening after five months of being closed because of Covid-19.

Tenet is the first major new Hollywood movie to be released in theatres since most locations shuttered in mid-March. It’s India release date has not been announced.

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‘Good One’ Review: Revelation in the Woods

Lily Collias delivers an extraordinary lead performance in this exquisite debut feature about a camping trip and a moment of self-realization.

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A teenager in a maroon long-sleeve shirt sits with her arms on her knees in a maroon-colored tent.

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“Good One” is a drama about human relationships, but it starts with close-up shots of plants and insects, setting the scene in more ways than one. Yes, the characters will spend most of the movie in the woods, and high summer in upstate New York is quite literally full of dirt, bugs and leafy canopies. But contemplating the rich greens and earthy red-browns, I found myself pondering life cycles, the mutating forms and constant shifts of the natural world — and of human life, too. I don’t think that’s an accident.

The “good one” of the title is Sam (Lily Collias), who is 17 and on a camping trip with her high-strung father, Chris (James Le Gros), and one of his oldest friends, an underemployed actor named Matt (Danny McCarthy). Matt’s son was supposed to come too, but bailed in a fit of pique, still bitter about his parents’ divorce. So it’s just Sam and the men.

Sam is exactly the type to get called the “good one” — not because she’s a prim Goody Two-shoes, but because she’s the sort of teenage girl that adults, especially adult men, feel comfortable around. She’s levelheaded and knows how to snark when necessary. In the woods, she pulls more than her own weight — she can pitch a tent, load up a day pack, filter water, build a fire and cook steaming bowls of ramen. She’ll take advice, but she’s equally good at giving it, an independent thinker with whom any grown-up could talk.

And boy, do Chris and Matt talk. Their relationship is rife with old rivalries and structured by all the selves they once were, all the way back to nearly Sam’s age. You can see them fall into an old script, Matt the hapless mess who packs all the wrong stuff and Chris the organized leader who gets mad when the energy bars aren’t in the right place.

Sam observes her father’s digs at Matt as they trek across the forest for three days, often silently, only her eyes betraying her thoughts. She has seen this dynamic her whole life. It unnerves her a little, the realization that these guys in their 50s, a couple of life stages ahead of her, are as immature as the boys she knows from home.

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Tenet Review

Average Ratings: 2.87/5 Score: 62% Positive Reviews Counted:6 Positive:5 Neutral:2 Negative:3

Ratings: 4/5 Review By: Ronak Site:Times Of India

Just like most Nolan films, this one too demands full attention from its viewer, yet there is no guarantee you will comprehend the films nuanced narrative in its totality. But that doesnt take away from enjoying the cinematic experience of Nolans vivid imagination that is skillfully portrayed on the big screen. The secret to enjoy Tenet lies in what a scientist, who is explaining inversion tells the Protagonist, “Don’t try to understand, feel it.”

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Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Narika Site:India Today

Visually, Tenet is not Interstellar. Yet, there are several stunning frames in this Christopher Nolan film that demand big-screen viewing. Tenet is mounted on a massive budget, and the frames speak of it. Watching it in theatres certainly will add an awe factor. But whether you chose to watch it in theatres or wait for it to release on an OTT platform, one thing’s for sure – Tenet isn’t a one-time watch, for more reasons than Nolan .. err, one. A wrinkle in our psyche, that’s all.

Ratings: 2.5/5 Review By: Andrew Site:Firstpost

There is spectacle to be had here, and at its best moments, it is every bit as huge and thrilling as any other film in Nolans filmography. But the bulk of the movie, largely spent getting to those moments, is a drab and bewildering slog. It is Christopher Nolans least-engaging film in years, and it is certainly not worth putting your life on the line to see it in theatres €” if for no other reason than you will probably need subtitles to understand what anybodys saying. Otherwise, the credits will roll and the plot will still be a mystery to you.

Ratings: 2/5 Review By: Shalini Site:Indian Express

Not every film requires the bending of space and time. However, even as he turns out a regular run-of-the-mill James Bond-ish thriller, Christopher Nolan cant resist the temptation. The result is a film that is so underwhelming and so over-confusing that, more than once, more than one character, insists, €œDont try to understand it.€ One of them even goes on to add, €œJust feel it€, though even that is hard to do

Ratings: — Review By: Rohan Site:Hindustan Times

You should be instantly suspicious of anyone who claims to have understood Tenet after having watched it just once. Heck, you should doubt their every word even if they say theyve seen it thrice. Enigmatic to a fault and exhaustingly dense, Christopher Nolans latest sci-fi spectacle leaves you with the unshakable feeling that you walked into the screening 15 minutes late.

Ratings: — Review By: Mini Site:The Hindu

Kenneth Branagh is Sator, complete with the rage, control, the great grief and accent €” when can we hear him say €œmurder-rug€ as Poirot in Death on the Nile? Douglas Adams Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a perfect marriage of space and time just like Tenet is a jolly meeting of James Bond and Alice in Wonderland. Tenet works as a dizzying ride on the Heart of Gold powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive. Yeah baby yeah!

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