Thrilling but uneven, 'The Odyssey' is a homecoming for Christopher Nolan
Anne Hathaway plays Penelope as Odysseus’ wife remains alive, while Matt Damon’s hero spends 20 years trying to return home after the Trojan War.
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ussanews.comThere Is Good and Evil. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t Afraid to Say So.
The best parts of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey are the parts in which he simply tells the story of Homer’s original poem. This may seem like a low bar. It’s not. Over the years, it has proven oddly difficult for contemporary filmmakers to adapt this thrilling epic without distorting it, emptying it of its charm, or offering a modern “take.” The legend of Odysseus’s 10-year journey home from the Trojan War is so well-beloved and oft-retold, so…
Thrilling but uneven, 'The Odyssey' is a homecoming for Christopher Nolan
The Odyssey feels like a prism through which Nolan's earlier films can be understood. A downbeat realist by nature, Nolan imbues the epic with a fascinating tension between fantasy and skepticism.
FILM: THE ODYSSEY **1/2 - neither impressed nor moved
17 July 2026 THE ODYSSEY **1/2 Sorry, I was neither impressed nor moved by this heavily promoted blockbuster by Christopher Nolan. This is, of course, based on the classic mythical tale by the Greek poet Homer, dating from the 8th century BC, about the struggles of the King of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin), and […]
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