The wildly inventive set-pieces are the highlights. Whether the car chase which crosses time barriers or the crash of the 747, the film is packed with bravura sequences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Orson Welles’ assertion that a movie in production is the biggest train set a boy could have is routinely borne out by Christopher Nolan films, in which planes are wrecked with giddy glee.

| Nov 17, 2024

Despite all of its issues in terms of plot and inaudible dialogue, Tenet is a reminder that nothing can quite beat the cinematic experience.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 31, 2024

Every single thing you think you’ve known about the filmmaker—or even about this movie in particular—is rendered virtually useless.

| Jul 8, 2024

A sleek, grandiose, modestly berserk, superbly costumed, intermittently lovely tessellation of dawdle and detonation and elements found in James Bond movies along with the customary Christopher Nolan time-and-space conundra.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' futzes with the time-space continuum in a top-secret spy tale intended to tank an incipient WWIII, but it's a tad tedious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2024

Christopher Nolan’s puzzle box Bond film is one of the most original films in quite some time.

| Apr 4, 2024

With Tenet, Nolan evolves as a surrealist director, yet his writing style does not similarly advance.

| Feb 7, 2024

Christopher Nolan's Tenet is a technically flawless, elaborate, immersive experience that needs to be felt in order to be understood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2023

The most Nolan-y film yet, where he’s fixated entirely on the possibilities and wonder of his creation and entirely ignorant of the people involved in the events. […] It’s gripping but it’s also empty.

| Oct 17, 2023

Then, suddenly and unexpectedly, almost towards the end of the movie, Nolan scores a winning goal. I felt that what's called "movie magic". [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2023

Tenet undoubtedly boasts an incredibly complex narrative with a unique temporal concept impressively demonstrated through spectacular, loud, jaw-dropping, practical action set pieces.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

An idyllic journey in which Christopher Nolan immerses himself in the physical laws of time through a screenplay that isn't suitable for the impatient. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 27, 2023

the tangled pile of plot threads may look like a jumbled mess, but everything comes together in a frenetic final act, weaving into a fabulously bold and entertaining tapestry... filmmaking on the grandest scale in terms of scope, technique and ambition

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Absurd elite espionage.

| Nov 8, 2022

Christopher Nolan has once again done what he does best – create an exhilarating cinematic experience aimed at wowing you visually and challenging you intellectually.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

A game cast and topnotch production values are unable to improve upon a clunky script and awkward execution. Tenet fails to reach its lofty ambitions. It also suffers from one of the worst sound mixes in a modern film at this level.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 22, 2022

The production team create some fantastically enjoyable big moments of cerebral high-octane fun that made the film's two-and-a-half hour run-time fly by.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Tenet is an intense blockbuster that doesn’t let up, and we’re swept along with the momentum of it all. Don’t try to understand it, just feel it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 20, 2022

A story people will try to explain to others, probably badly, who will in turn head to the multiplex to form their own opinion. If the mission was to create a discussion, then Tenet is a huge success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2022