Tenet (2020)

Nominated for Best Visual Effects and Best Production Design  This was one of the only movies to come out in theaters last year.  Director Christopher Nolan was adamant that it had to be seen on the biggest screen.  But I watched it on my couch anyway and I don't think I missed anything.  

An unnamed government agent (John David Washington) joins an even more secret organization dedicated to preventing attacks from the future.  Not in a proactive, "this is how we recognize problems and deal with them early" kind of way, but literal attacks from the future traveling to the past.  A Russian oligarch (Kenneth Branagh) communicates with unknown persons in the future to search the present for nine pieces of an algorithm that will reverse the flow of time, because climate change?  Anyway, the protagonist cozies up to the oligarch's abused wife (Elizabeth Debicki) to get access to the man himself but starts to recognize the human cost might be too dear to bear.

Look, this isn't a deep movie.  You're not going to have long, in-depth conversations about the implications of time travel in this fashion.  It's a fun popcorn flick with people running backwards and explosions winding down into puffs of smoke.  The visuals are good, Branagh makes an excellent villain, and Washington is a rising star.  Plus, this actually made me consider that Robert Pattinson might not fuck up Batman.

Tenet is currently not streaming (for free, you can rent it) on any services.