Christopher Nolan’s most divisive film is topping Netflix proper now

Tenet is making a splash on Netflix proper now, as UK viewers are doing what the remainder of us are —making an attempt to work out what the hell is happening in that movie. The Christopher Nolan film, which is at the moment second on the Netflix UK charts, follows a former CIA agent (John David Washington) who learns to control time to stop a catastrophic assault that’s set to happen sooner or later.

Whereas the science fiction film noticed some success throughout awards season — being nominated for 2 Academy Awards earlier than happening to win Greatest Visible Results — its muddled storytelling implies that followers and critics alike don’t fairly know what to make of the thriller film.

It holds the important aggregation rating of 69% throughout each Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Which means whereas the motion film — which additionally stars Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh — has a broadly constructive consensus, it went down like Marmite.

Whereas Inverse‘s Issac Feldberg described Tenet as a “vibe,” Christy Lemire of FilmWeek stated the movie was “deliberately inaccessible and difficult.” Brian Truitt of USA In the present day stated Tenet was “each completely dazzling and more and more bewildering,” whereas Vox‘s Alissa Wilkinson was equally divided. On the one hand, she describes Tenet as “the primary Nolan film in an extended whereas that [she’s] left feeling dissatisfied.”

However then again, she notes that “there’s sufficient good things buried beneath its antiseptic, maybe overly showy method, when you get previous the clankier bits, that’s price exploring.”

Critics won’t be capable of make their minds up, however should you reside within the UK, you possibly can see the place you stand for your self and watch Tenet now on the streaming service.

After that, you might try the whole lot new on Netflix, together with new films and new Netflix sequence — or possibly you wish to see Nolan’s newest flick. If that’s the case, try our information on tips on how to watch Oppenheimer — a movie that, in response to some critics, could be Nolan’s greatest film but.