Some critics that liked the tweet and that we also know have seen the movie by now: Alissa Wilkinson from Vox (RT top critic & MC), Chris Evangelista from Slashfilm (RT & MC), Rachel Leishman from TheMarySue (RT), Rendy Jones (RT), Angelica Jade from Vulture (RT top critic & MC), and Matt Goldberg who recently left Collider.
You really don't think just having two actors casually stroll in a boring 2-shot where there is nothing going on but expository dialogue in Tenet is highly indicative that the least important thing to him in those scenes are depthful performances? He is always much more interested in his story constructions and concepts than the characters he injects into them. He's not the kinda filmmaker whose first idea for a story is a specific character and everything else spawns from that.
Seems that Kate Erbland of Indiewire has seen it now (will she review it? we'll have to wait and see). While there's no way to know if she enjoyed it or not based on her letterboxd entry, she appears to have immediately gone and retweeted a Mike Ryan interview with Matt Reeves. At the very least it seems we can gather that seeing the film didn't turn her off from engaging positively with it.
Significantly more Raimi in this which has raised my hopes quite a bit, but still some boring junk visually like the Patrick Stewart location which looks like the most generic pre-vis set I've ever seen.
It's that worldofreel guy, who isn't the brightest out there but when he shares early reactions from a critic screening it has always been accurate (i.e. a real reaction lol).
I could be wrong but I believe the last time a film with 10 or more nominations went without a Best Director nod was ironically Spielberg's The Color Purple with 11 noms. That might take the cake for #1 all-time too.