A thriller told in real time?

Spoilers ahead for Tenet. Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker obsessed with time. However, that obsession with time is usually put to greater ends with regards to character and/or circumstance. But in his latest film, Tenet, Nolan’s obsession with time proves his undoing as the “time inversion” that drives the plot and creates a palindromic structure comes at the expense of concise plotting or thoughtful characters. By the end of Tenet, you’ve ceased to care about the particulars of time inversion and who’s going forward and who’s going backwards because we’re indifferent to the people …

There's a question as to whether or not Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, the new interactive special launching on Netflix May 12, is strictly necessary. After all, the series finale did a beautiful job of wrapping up the narrative and giving Kimmy arguably the perfect ending: After years spent trying to conquer her own trauma, she becomes a famous author, whose books help others heal. But creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have embraced the challenge of not just following up on their original happy ending, but doing so using a format which might be vulnerable to …

I had to watch the pilot of Interrogation at the beginning, and I had to watch the season finale at the end. In between were eight episodes of television that I could choose to watch in any order I pleased. When one episode ended, I would be reminded by helpful onscreen text to return to the main screen and choose another episode -- whatever episode I wanted. Thus is the storytelling gimmick at the crux of Interrogation, a CBS All Access crime drama based on a true case. The goal for this experiment? To make me, the viewer, feel like an …

All Star Wars movies come with a certain amount of marketing gimmicks, but The Rise of Skywalker seemed to take this concept to new extremes.

Did 1917's one-shot technique aid in the film's storytelling or hinder it?

We now have a little clarity on how Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor is back in the highly anticipated sequel Wonder Woman 1984. One of the biggest revelations when the follow-up was developing was that Pine would reprise his role as Steve Trevor. This was confusing not just because Trevor (spoiler alert) sacrificed his life in the first film, but also because Wonder Woman took place in 1918. Even if Trevor did somehow survive that plan crash, he’d be either super old or super dead in the Wonder Woman sequel, which takes place in the year 1984. Director …