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Does the release of Hollywood film Tenet mean that things are back to normal? Not quite

Tenet is the first big Hollywood summer film to land on the big screens since Covid-19 shut down cinemas in Singapore from March 27 to July 12. PHOTO: WARNER BROS
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SINGAPORE - Tenet, opening this week, was supposed to be released in mid-July. Then Covid-19 happened, so it was moved to later the same month. Then it was moved again.

Appropriately for a movie that has characters buffeted by time-streams moving at cross-currents, the film's release date, as were so many others', was unmoored.

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