Before Oppenheimer put him back on top, IMAX auteur Christopher Nolan experienced the first wobble of his career. You’d think that any filmmaker who can turn a 700-page biography of the father of the atomic bomb into a Best Picture winner that is also, despite its R rating and three-hour run time, a $976 million-grossing megahit could do just about anything. But in 2020, the pandemic was too great an obstacle for Nolan’s gorgeous, expensive, and nearly impenetrable spy-fi thriller Tenet to overcome.

Not that the movie’s closely guarded premise was an easy sell: In the simplest terms, it’s a globe-trotting epic starring son-of-Denzel John David Washington as a deep-cover operative in pursuit of a Russian arms dealer played by Kenneth Branagh, who’s taking his orders from co-conspirators se

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