Belfast

Kenneth Branagh has made a masterpiece. It’s a movie of formal beauty, precise performances, complex and textured writing and enough comic one-liners and classic Van Morrison tracks to make you forget that you’re watching a drama about seething sectarian hatreds. “Belfast” is unquestionably Kenneth Branagh’s most personal film to date, but it’s also sure to have universal…

Tenet

Do you really think Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” can save 2020 cinema? Maybe it is our collective enslavement to the superhero-industrial complex, but right now the movie world is looking for a savior. If it turns out to be Christopher Nolan, it wouldn’t be the first time. Films of his, like “Inception,” “Interstellar” and “Dunkirk,” have, in…