The ideal Christopher Nolan movie for Terminator fans is coming to Netflix soon. The popular streaming service will add the director’s 2020 sci-fi film Tenet to its library next month.
Starting Nov. 1, Tenet will be available to watch in the United States on Netflix. Nolan’s 11th movie as a director, Tenet is about a former CIA agent, played by John David Washington, who must look into strange, time-traveling items linked to an attack coming from the future into the present.
The sci-fi film has been positively compared to James Cameron’s The Terminator, since both involve time travel, especially its use as a story tool to save the world from a future danger. But unlike The Terminator, Tenet did not get as much praise from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes showing a 70% approval rating, which is lower than the perfect 100% that Cameron’s 1984 classic has on the review site.
After being first delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet came out in August 2020 as the first major Hollywood blockbuster to return to theaters after the shutdown. Even though Nolan hoped Tenet would bring people back to theaters, the film did not meet expectations, though it still made $365 million at the box office.
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Tenet ended up being the final movie Nolan made with Warner Bros., as he left the studio the next year after disagreeing with their choice to release films in theaters and on HBO Max at the same time.
Nolan’s movie after Tenet was Oppenheimer, an R-rated historical biopic about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the Manhattan Project. Starring Cillian Murphy as the lead, Oppenheimer was released by Universal on the same day as Warner Bros.’ Barbie in 2023. Even though the two movies aimed at very different audiences, many people showed up to see both films, creating a surprise cultural moment called Barbenheimer that led both movies to open higher than expected at the box office.
With Oppenheimer breaking several box office records, like becoming the highest-earning biographical film, everyone is now watching Nolan’s next movie, which will be a large-scale retelling of The Odyssey, the ancient Greek poem by Homer about Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his dangerous journey home after the Trojan War. Matt Damon, who acted with Nolan on Oppenheimer, is starring as Odysseus, with Tom Holland playing his son, Telemachus.
As usual with Nolan’s films, the director has filled the cast of The Odyssey with many major stars, some of whom, like Zendaya, are only expected to have small parts in the movie. Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Jon Bernthal, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Mia Goth, Corey Hawkins, Cosmo Jarvis, and Ryan Hurst are all confirmed for The Odyssey, with Bill Irwin, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick E. Tarabay, Jimmy Gonzales, Maurice Compte, Michael Vlamis, Iddo Goldberg, and Josh Stewart also in the cast.
Tenet comes to Netflix on Nov. 1, while The Odyssey will release in theaters on July 17, 2026.