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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About Time (2013)

Imagine Four Weddings and a Funeral with a time travel twist and you get this, an occasionally touching, occasionally funny but mostly irritating British romantic comedy slash family drama that adds time travel into the mix for no great gain, just to unnecessarily hammer home the life lessons learned by a Hugh Grant moving (backwards and) forwards through life with an Andie McDowell.

★★☆☆☆

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The Door (Die Tür) (2009)

Forget how he manages to time travel (by following a resurrected butterfly through a hole in a wall) and forget how it ends (fairly nonsensically) and just enjoy the quirky thriller in between, as a man whose neglect leads to the death of his daughter ventures back in time to momentarily enjoy the good things of the past...before chaos reigns.

★★★☆☆

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Project Almanac (2015)

Things start chaotically - a group of high schoolers with a handheld camera discover time-travel and film everything as they, in a swirl of autumn leaves and dust, zip back and forwards to relive good times and undo bad - but the chaos escalates when one of the group starts breaking the group's self-imposed time-travel rules, and what follows is a one-heightened-chaotic-note teen time-travel drama that quickly becomes wearisome.

★★☆☆☆

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Back to the Future (1985)

This classic tightly-written time travel adventure comedy that spawned two follow-ups has Marty McFly travelling back thirty years from 1985 to 1955 where he complicates the blossoming romance between his teenaged father and mother and threatens his future existence!

★★★★★

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