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I felt Nolan's "Tenet" was a breath of fresh air. Nolan is a master storyteller in Tenet. Tenet uses literary devices, plot twists, with mind-bending, time manipulation. Rather than focus on what Nolan's Tenet does better than the rest of Hollywood major releases, I'm going to independently focus on Tenet itself. ::Spoilers Below:: Reverse entropy is a major focus of Tenet, which the movie title itself is a palindrome. Reverse entropy is reversing time on an object, essentially reverting what already happened. (For example: A bullet makes a hole in a wall) reversing that bullet means it will reverse course even in the path of something not initially in its trajectory. (Such as a person) This concept is baked into the story itself. Essentially the plot (through literary threads) also behaves metaphorically like the bullet does with the bullet's eventual outcome being world war 3. Through the protagonist realizing aspects of the future from the reverse entropy of people/objects in the present he is attempting to prevent the future from happening. That being said I felt the genius of Nolan's work is having a story told non-linearly essentially adopting the the mechanics of the literary device. (A repeated ten minute palindrome wrapped in a story)