Tenet

Something like the epitome of [Nolan's] temporally twisty canon, distilling his many cinematic signatures and preoccupations down to their entrancing abstract essence.

[Christopher Nolan] is very clever, but mostly irritating is what I find. [His movies] are not cerebral - they're fake cerebral... He doesn't even do the time travel right.

I am a big fan of [Christopher Nolan's] films -- I usually enjoy the time puzzle of it -- but this seems even more intentionally inaccessible and challenging than everything else... Confusing, distancing, and chilly.

"Tenet" is indeed impressive, although I gave up trying to follow the plot.

"Tenet" is difficult to understand, but even worse, it inspires little desire to understand it.

The auteur doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work.

It means what you want it to mean, and I don't want it to mean anything. It's just a ride.

By the end of its two-and-a-half-hours, with all its bi-directional action, revelations and world-ending ramifications, it's a bit numbing, And you're pretty sure you can't wait to watch it again.

...a high-faluting, high energy, uber-glam espionage thriller...

Just go with it. Allow the inversion to pull you along because it does, for the most part, make sense by the end.