Tenet

Nolan prioritizes the dense audiovisual spectacle of his most narratively complex films. Beyond the intellectual, they exist primarily, and more accessibly, as experiences. Put another way: Tenet is a vibe.

As a delivery system for the thrills, I think the film gets a long way, and you can kind of sit back and enjoy it. As a delivery system for the ideas, I think it trips itself up an awful lot.

Something like the epitome of [Nolan's] temporally twisty canon, distilling his many cinematic signatures and preoccupations down to their entrancing abstract essence.

[Christopher Nolan] is very clever, but mostly irritating is what I find. [His movies] are not cerebral - they're fake cerebral... He doesn't even do the time travel right.

I am a big fan of [Christopher Nolan's] films -- I usually enjoy the time puzzle of it -- but this seems even more intentionally inaccessible and challenging than everything else... Confusing, distancing, and chilly.

"Tenet" is indeed impressive, although I gave up trying to follow the plot.

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

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

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

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.