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'Tenet' Opens Internationally. Will Be Shown In Select U.S. Cities Next Month

The sci-fi thriller Tenet was originally slated to open in July, but the studio repeatedly rescheduled the film's release while the coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas around the globe.

It's always been about timing with Tenet. Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated action thriller stars John David Washington as a secret agent who inverts time to try to save the world from an impending World War III.

His character apparently doesn't so much time travel as bend, about the film's complicated story line. "Just enjoy being in a theater and looking at an event. It's such wonder and spectacle and location and scale, beautiful scenery ... And then on the second and third viewing, try to deconstruct it and break it down."

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