The fundamental issue with "Tenet" is that it saddled a baffling concept with an unnecessarily complicated story. There's Russian oligarch Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), about whom the only thing film makes clear is that he's the villain. Then there's his wife (Elizabeth Debicki) and the fake paintings she had his estranged
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“Tenet” (2020) is Too Creative for Its Own Good (Part I of II)
(5.5/10)
The question you need to ask with a movie like "Tenet" (2020) is: for whom was this made?
Maybe it was for director and writer Christopher Nolan, who has established enough pedigree that a studio will shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for a
In “Everest” (2015), a Thrilling Education into the Lethal World of Mountain Climbing
8.5/10
There is a scene in "Everest" (2015) in which magazine journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly) asks the several climbers he has accompanied for part of the trip why they are looking to reach the highest peak in the world.
"Because it's there!" they all answer at the same time, fully aware how humorously unsatisfying answer is.
When pressed for a more satisfactory response, Yasuko Namba (Naoko
There is a scene in "Everest" (2015) in which magazine journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly) asks the several climbers he has accompanied for part of the trip why they are looking to reach the highest peak in the world.
"Because it's there!" they all answer at the same time, fully aware how humorously unsatisfying answer is.
When pressed for a more satisfactory response, Yasuko Namba (Naoko