Tenet is the perfect quarantine movie since, let’s face it, time itself has become a flat circle. Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster puzzle-box of a film is an examination of time and perspective from the filmmaker who continues to flex the very tenets of the reality we know by layering ideas such that when audiences are pulled back and see the full canvas, they are astonished.

Tenet stars John David Washington as the unnamed “Protagonist,” a former CIA agent turned operative for the international “Tenet” organization, tasked with repossessing time-inverting devices. He is joined on this mission by Neil (Robert Pattinson) and assisted by Kat (Elizabeth Debicki), the wife of the international “inverted” arms dealer, Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh).