New on DVD: 'Tenet' a 'confusing movie for our confusing times' Tribune "Tenet": After multiple COVID-related delays, director Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" finally debuted in U.S. theaters in early September. Critics said it was a confusing movie for our confusing times. John David Washington plays a spy who aims to travel back in time to avert a global disaster. Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips called "Tenet" an "ambitious letdown." In his review Phillips wrote: "There are some beautiful backward sights to behold: exploded buildings magically reassembling, or bullets zwooping back, in reverse motion, into the weapons from whence they came. But the movie has a way of tripping over itself, whichever direction it's going."