Tenet (2020)

It is basically a James Bond movie - an icy-cool, broody Daniel Craig one - but instead of a nuclear code or a diamond-powered laser or nude bomb, John David Washington's agent is pursuing a villain armed with a travel-backwards-through-time machine, meaning it's a Bond film loaded with mind-bending scenes in which some characters move forward and others backward through time, but just relax, remind yourself it's just an action film, and try to enjoy the nonsense...with subtitles on (it's incomprehensible otherwise) and while ignoring the second half's frequent clunking exposition and unsuccessful attempts at injecting emotion into the high-concept action.

★★★☆☆

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Blue Velvet (1986)

David Lynch's neo-noir cult classic from 1986 pre-dates Twin Peaks and his increasingly mind-bending films of the 90s and is remarkable for its hideous gas-sucking, dry-humping villain, its uniquely Lynchian imagery, its dreamlike scenes - like the one with the dancer on the car rooftop, and the standing lobotomee ' and for helping salvage Kyle MacLachlan's career after the director's much-maligned Dune.

★★★★☆

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