Early Tenet Reviews Are Here, See What Critics Have to Say!

The first reviews for Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated movie Tenet are trickling in, with some commending the film’s originality and for being “grandly entertaining” as others claim that the film is “almost impossible to love.” You can check out some of the reviews and reactions below!

‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Grandly Entertaining, Time-Slipping Spectacle Is a Futuristic Throwback https://t.co/q6cLARQimT

— Variety (@Variety) August 21, 2020

From @THR‘s #Tenet review: “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.” https://t.co/5eic2C0Vcr

— Aaron Couch (@AaronCouch) August 21, 2020

I tried to write my TENET review as a palindrome, but got as far as “Good, it’s good” before realising I’d already failed. Big, beefy, convoluted spectacle, wider than it is deep, suit porn levels off the charts: I had fun. https://t.co/rnNpic1eGY

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) August 21, 2020

Tenet is a thrilling addition to the Christopher Nolan canon, but is slightly held back by a sense of over-familiarity.

Our review: https://t.co/HcVBYqQsb5 pic.twitter.com/tCBTLM80vO

— IGN (@IGN) August 21, 2020

Christopher Nolan’s stunning time-travel thriller #Tenet hits UK cinemas next week – read the NME review: https://t.co/stLqSwLOpW

— NME (@NME) August 21, 2020

TENET: The spinning top of INCEPTION and the endless void of INTERSTELLAR have nothing on the grand intrigue that is #TENET, Christopher Nolan’s most challenging film — and also his most satisfying. pic.twitter.com/F3qVc1qMBF

— Peter Howell (@peterhowellfilm) August 21, 2020

#Tenet Review: Christopher Nolan’s Long-Anticipated Time Caper Is a Humorless Disappointment https://t.co/wE01VPA5Gk pic.twitter.com/1w3QX1gOhT

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) August 21, 2020

“It has its cake, eats it, then goes back in time and eats it again.” Read the official Empire review of Christopher Nolan’s #Tenet. https://t.co/ulLb1BQF1h pic.twitter.com/2Yp1XIxuwu

— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) August 21, 2020

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” review: There is enjoyably puzzling fun to be had along the way, but this sci-fi James Bond homage may have you pleading for an aspirin and a long lie-down https://t.co/nz2WjqNjGw

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) August 21, 2020

Tenet review: Christopher Nolan’s thriller is a palindromic dud https://t.co/O40xYfmiw7

— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) August 21, 2020

TENET is Christopher Nolan’s weirdest & most confusing film yet. What I mean to say is that I really dug it, it made me feel like a tiny baby floating in an endless universe https://t.co/dKfN4iFNd9

— Clarisse Loughrey (@clarisselou) August 21, 2020

There comes a time where you watch a film that just nails every part of the characterisation, story, casting & soundtrack. And you’re in utter awe even though you shouldn’t be, because Christopher Nolan has never disappointed.

TENET is an insane cinematic experience. pic.twitter.com/PYKfLNmJQE

— Laila (@lailatweetzx) August 21, 2020

#TENET

I loved it. It’s very timely. It has big ideas, although it is perhaps guilty of being a bit abstract in places.

Elizabeth DeBicki is fantastic. It does things that I’ve never seen on-screen before. It’s stunning.

I can’t wait to see it again.https://t.co/4gZP2DMwtc

— Darren Mooney (@Darren_Mooney) August 21, 2020

#Tenet review: Christopher Nolan’s galaxy-brain epic is a natural successor to Inception – for better and for worse https://t.co/O71ZA9Il1Y

— Little White Lies (@LWLies) August 21, 2020

The highly-anticipated mystery project will first open in 70 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain and the U.K. on August 26, with some territories still yet to receive a release date, while select US cities will see the film open on September 3 ahead of the Labor Day weekend.

Tenet will be an international espionage thriller filmed across seven countries. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) stars, with a supporting cast that includes Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Dimple Kapadia (Fugly), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises) and Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk).

The director first made an impact in 2001 with his indie film Memento. His next film, Insomnia, was also a modest hit. but it wasn’t until Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005 that Nolan became a box office force in his own right. The Prestige was Nolan’s last movie to gross under $200 million worldwide. His other films include The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk.

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Tenet is written by Nolan and will utilize a mixture of IMAX and 70mm film, which is something he’s become famous for. Nolan is the film producer along with his partner Emma Thomas.