Tenet
Christopher Nolans Tenet provides an important stepping stone for me. Having not seen this movie since its release back in 2020 the inevitable rewatch of such a polarizing movie was always going to be telling as to how and if my movie taste has evolved and developed.
Worried I had matured since those days of 15 year old me, I hadn't the slightest hope that I would hold this movie in the regard I did 5 years ago, yet here I am possibly holding it to an even higher regard than I did all those years ago.
Tenet shows an improved maturity for Nolan in terms of narrative and writing. 10 years after the release of Inception it appears not only does Nolan trust his audience, he appears to bathe in the fact that the average Joe will not understand and in doing so be pissed off at such an insane hedonistic concept.
This mindset allows Nolan complete and utter freedom in his script and story, the end product being an ambitious demonstration of science fiction at its most self indulgent. Neil's character being a parallel to Nolan himself telling his audience not to understand it but to experience it. The entirety of the plot being one big temporal pincer movement is an immense feat in creative genius.
Combine everything with a intense yet melancholy score, some brilliant visual effects and some much needed charm from Robert Pattinson and you've got yourself a fucking good movie.