Streaming: Tenet and other time-travel films to lose yourself in

Christoper Nolan’s sci-fi conundrum joins that ‘intelligently daft’ branch of cinematic time-twisters designed to make your head hurtUsually in December, home entertainment columnists would be flooded with big-name blockbusters from earlier in the year, out in time for Christmas and its attendant flurry of gift lists.

This year, after months of irregular cinema activity and countless delayed releases, one tentpole title pretty much has all the hype to itself: yes, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet (multiple platforms from Monday) is now out to punch up your festive home viewing.Not that “festive” is really what Nolan does: hard, unsmiling and rendered in assorted shades of steel, Tenet is essentially a Bond film with the jokes dialled way down and a tangle of sci-fi complications in their place.

Like all Nolan opuses, it takes itself very seriously indeed, but is nevertheless best enjoyed as handsome hot nonsense.

John David Washington

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