On a scale of Christopher Nolans, Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s latest film, is his Christopher Nolaniest yet.
That’s not especially a compliment. Nolan certainly has a grand style and deals with ideas more than any other director of Hollywood blockbusters.
But calling his films “pure cinema” is often a cop-out for those ideas and the vainglorious execution of them taking precedence over logic and clarity….
not that clarity is the be-all/end-all of moviemaking, but c’mon! Little help, please? In many ways, Tenet is his most aggressively experimental film.