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Christopher Nolan

John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki

Having more than proved his worth, CIA superspy The Protagonist (Washington) is inducted into secret organisation Tenet, on the trail of bullets that go backwards in time. From there he finds himself facing off against arms dealer Andrei Sator (Branagh) in a bid to avert World War III.

THE BLAMS COME thick and fast. Tenet, in fact, might be Christopher Nolan’s blammiest film yet. BLAM! A terrifying thing just happened. BLAM! A shocking moment of revelation. BLAM! Here’s a speedboat. (There really is a massive blam accompanying an otherwise ordinary shot of two people on a speedboat.) It’s not even Hans Zimmer this time — here the great Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, The Mandalorian) is on scoring duties, making it all his own (you will nod your head intensely) but without ever scrimping on the blams. Because if a Christopher Nolan film doesn’t sound like the end of the world, then something’s wrong. And this one really is about the end of the world.

We’re told early on — defiantly and resolutely — that this is not a film about timetravel. There are a handful of instances in Tenet where one character lays things out to another, each time telling them it’s okay if they don’t quite get it. “Don’t try to understand it,” says