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Tenet

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Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. From TMDB

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    Christopher Nolan was reportedly interested in directing a James Bond movie after doing #Tenet but he wouldn't have gotten a say on the film’s final cut He went and directed #Oppenheimer instead (via Variety)

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  • John Scalzi @scalzi.comBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    He's an extremely competent filmmaker and is also thematically and formally ambitious, which is sometimes not the case with extremely competent filmmakers. He also has a specific aesthetic; no one else's films look like his. So far even his failures (Tenet) would be someone else's great film.

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  • Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    I watched Tenet with no sound or subtitles on a 7 hour flight and then I made a slideshow about disliking chrisdopher noland movies with my remaining 4.5 hours.

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  • Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    My fave Nolan bits/bobs in no order: •Opening sequence w/ plane in Dark Night Rises •Bowie as Tesla in The Prestige •Matt Damon in Interstellar •How much money he got a studio to put into a movie as insane as Tenet •Everything about Dunkirk Can’t wait to see The Odyssey in 70MM this weekend.

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  • John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    TENET has weirdly become a comfort food movie for me. I recognise its many faults, but something about it just scratches my brain the right way.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    5 years ago today, Christopher Nolan’s ‘TENET’ released in theaters. Read why the film deserves more appreciation: bit.ly/TenetDF

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  • season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    to be mean about it, TENET is the movie people think INCEPTION is

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  • LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Tenet becomes extremely watchable when you realize Robert Pattinson spends the whole movie looking at John David Washington like this

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  • William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Tenet trilogy. The first film is the last and the last film is both the last and the first.

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  • SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    "movie too convoluted": true but only of Tenet "can't tell characters apart": skill issue "women are pretty weak": this one is true "i can't hear his fucking dialogue": this one is also true "he is a race traitor": insane brainworms "bulwark of the fascist establishment": also insane brainworms

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  • Veitstanz @veitstanz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2025

    Reasons Bees yells: - demanding cuddles - demanding food - has just eaten - has just pooped - the movie Tenet Weirdo

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  • Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    Film critics watching Christopher Nolan’s “TENET”:

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  • Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyiBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    Rewatched Tenet. What a vibes test. If you can roll with this, you can roll with just about anything. Easy to understand once you stop trying. Only movie with a soundtrack that's almost loud enough

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  • David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    My extremely cool and not convoluted theory is that Tenet is the midway point of Christopher Nolan’s career and he’s now going to loosely recreate his filmography backwards. His next film will be the end of a superhero trilogy. It makes perfect sense and is airtight.

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    as an expert in temporal pincer movements it took me a while before i could accept Tenet for the exciting action movie that it is

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  • Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.appBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    I bought it last time. But I told him everyone who sees it asks where I got it. I tell them where. They ask if they can get it too. I tell them, braggingly, ‘No.’ He did this as part of a collab with a film museum. He made a lot of stuff including TENET stickers, which I have. He loves The Dude.

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  • Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    though I haven't totally cracked it yet I've figured out that part of my ongoing obsession with TENET is, in part, that it's the closest thing to a movie version of those social media accounts like Liminal Spaces that feature photos like this

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    TENET was released 6 years ago today. The 11th feature film of director Christopher Nolan and his first trip into time-travel, the story behind the scenes will have you unsure if your entropy is coming or going… 1/52

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  • Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Rewatched TENET and on critical reevaluation I think I'm coming around to @starshine.bsky.social 's POV that it might be peak Nolan. Movie slaps.

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  • gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2024

    Thinking about the sentence “I’m not working for you, I just figured out we’re both working for me,” a real line from the perfect movie Tenet

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

    TENET was released 5 years ago today. The 11th feature film of director Christopher Nolan and his first trip into time-travel, the story behind the scenes will have you unsure if your entropy is coming or going… 1/52

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  • ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    still think I stand behind Tenet is Nolan’s best movie

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  • ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    /Tenet/ Tenant is a yet to be released jason statham movie about a shitty landlord that statham needs to Kill

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  • Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

    It is the five year anniversary of Ben Shapiro not posting about Tenet, his favorite filmmaker’s second most recent film

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  • Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2024

    Apparently TENET is back in theaters, so let me remind you that I sort of cracked the (more or less literal) code on it and it’s so much weirder than I expected: www.vox.com/culture/2141...

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  • Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2024

    For context, @dennisbhooper.bsky.social used to post daily updates about Ben Shapiro and the movie Tenet. He did this for years, with the commitment of the pope leading morning prayers. 🫡

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  • Alex Hardy @alex-hardy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    I have no problem with the casting. I have irreconcilable issues with Nolan's AUDIO As an Iraq war veteran with tinnitus, I could not hear Bane at all for TDKR Each new film gets harder to hear I heard 2% of the dialogue in Interstellar (Murph!) I heard 1% of the dialogue of Tenet (Protagonist)

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  • Chris Grace @chrisgrace.comBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    unfortunately my personality is every six months I watch the film "Tenet" and try to understand the plot

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  • Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2024

    Tenet is a movie about how Benny Johnson goes from Russian asset to conservative media also-ran to BuzzFeed Plagiarist

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    The more I look back on Tenet, the more it feels like a film Christopher Nolan made to get a lot of stuff out of his system, like a cinematic exorcism of his worst tendencies. It's probably one of his worst films, and then he's immediately followed that with two of his very best.

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  • Griffin Schiller @griffschiller.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    Hottest cast since TENET. God tier casting by Christopher Nolan for his next film! #filmsky

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  • Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Also this movie rocks. Why did Nolan ever bother doing Tenet shit when he can do THIS?!

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  • StarlessRedLark @peppermintdiana.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    Well I just watched Tenet. ...I've got nothing, this movie was just noise to me. I don't think it was bad but it's on the low end of Nolan's movies.

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  • Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2024

    "A covert Russian active measure called Tenet can only be an allusion to the 2020 Christopher Nolan film of the same name—a film whose villain is a rich, powerful, sadistic, and psychotic Russian oligarch who wants, and has the means, to end the world." gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pag...

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  • Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    1 like = One random comment or theory about the Christopher Nolan film 'Tenet'

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  • Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    HIGHLIGHTS: February 2026 #THRILLER/#SUSPENSE Festival wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2026/02/27/h... Best Short Film: THE HUNTED Direction: DARK TENET Animation Film: THE PROTECTiON AGENCY Horror/Thriller Film: ECHOES OF ANTIETAM Performances: EXPOSED Story: CHECK BEHIND THE CURTAIN #filmfestival

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  • Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Tenet is a silly movie

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  • HK @hkesvani.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    Time to watch my fave Christmas movie, Tenet

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    you don't want Steven Spielberg directing a Bond movie, you want him wishing he could and doing Raiders of the Lost Ark instead you don't want Chris Nolan directing a Bond movie, you want him wishing he could and doing Inception and Tenet instead

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  • XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.netBluesky · Jan 4, 2024

    My review of Tenet to my friends was “it’s a good fun action movie just do not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to think about anything that happens.”

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  • Dian M.Z. @dianmz.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2024

    I was really into the movie Tenet (2020) for a hot second. Obsessively watched it on repeat. Please give it a chance 😭🫶

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  • Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    Rewatching Tenet. Movie still rips.

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  • Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    i swear to fucking god i think Nolan's making a temporal pincer maneuver out of movies Tenet is actually his most important film god fucking dammit

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  • Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    Even Tenet is mostly overstated. Like it's not a puzzle box movie, you don't have to treat it as one.

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  • Sol Feggio @wtdore.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2024

    people think Tenet is a time travel movie - it's not, it is a thermodynamics movie, which is why nobody understands it.

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  • Jūbei Powers™ @jubeipowers.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    Seeing through, my 'Eye of the Devil', 'The Outrun' in 'Tron Ares' attempt must outwit 'TeneT' outwit must attempt 'Ares Tron' in 'Outrun The' Devil the of Eye' my, through seeing. #LastFourWatched #filmsky #LetterboxdFriday #letterboxd

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  • davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.comBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    name one film more visually innovative than Tenet (2020). I'll wait.

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  • Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    A great argument for the necessity of film criticism is Christopher Nolan's TENET, a film that I didn't enjoy when I first watched it and still don't enjoy now. But I've read a few thoughtful pieces about it that helped me put my "Eh, this isn't for me, but maybe it's for you" feelings into words.

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  • ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    I haven’t read it yet but yes 1000000%. Tenet is an all vibes rollercoaster movie and he excells at it

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  • jam @socialistboat.dadBluesky · May 29, 2024

    ME: My kids have been scheduling their sleep to provoke maximum irritation on my part. Big one doesn't sleep until 10 and little one wakes up at 5 THE PROTAGONIST (FROM THE FILM TENET (2021) BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN): A temporal pincer movement

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  • Gregk Foley @gregk.co.ukBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 43 YOUR BEING MANIPULATED: EDDINGTON w/ HUSSEIN KESVANI @hkesvani.bsky.social Hussein comes on to talk about the most important film of the COVID era that isn’t Christopher Nolan’s TENET.

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    I contributed notes to this when I visited, the film with the most wildly unbalanced sound mix outside of Tenet.

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  • Martyn @martynpedler.comBluesky · May 23, 2026

    Are there other examples of the "GALAXY QUEST is the best Star Trek movie" effect? I was thinking that perhaps TENET is the best James Bond film...

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  • Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    TENET IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE ƎIꓥOW ꓷOOꓨ ⅄ꓤƎꓥ Ɐ SI ꓕƎNƎꓕ

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    lmao would be like someone telling me i need to see this movie Tenet

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  • Boo! DooPerson @boodoo.coBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Movie night is Tenet (2020) a movie I've willingly known absolutely nothing about except that it's a palindromic title and Nolan was being Thematic with that decision. But I have to read Gita's piece at some point so watching the movie is the first step.

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    an underrated aspect of Tenet is that it ends, '90s-style, with a rap about the events of the film, because Nolan knows ball

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    my only hope is Nolan never makes a Bond film, but continues making his weirdo versions of Bond films Tenet being one of the best films of all time

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  • rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.restBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    i’m watching TENET tonight for my little treat dinner and drinks and movie i somehow know nothing about this film

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  • Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2023

    Twitter collapsing before Oppenheimer comes out is a psyop to protect Ben Shapiro’s silence on the most recent Nolan film, Tenet. cc:@dennisbhooper.bluesky.social

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