After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
Cast: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Elliot Page, Benny Safdie, Mia Goth, among others.
“Nolan’s love of movies and commitment to them — to what they can do, what they can be, what they should be — runs like an electric current through his filmography, lighting it, and oftentimes you, up. That passion is in every frame of his monumental adaptation of THE ODYSSEY…. Nolan employs beauty strategically, using it to seduce viewers into stories that can seem needlessly byzantine to some — especially by impoverished mainstream industry standards — more the provenance of the art house than the multiplex. Nolan asks us to dream bigger. His ODYSSEY is a classic in every sense, a transporting affirmation of the art and a work of pure cinema.” —Manohla Dargis, NYT Critic’s Pick, New York Times “As a filmmaker, Nolan has never tended towards the confessional. Yet his take on THE ODYSSEY, one of history’s oldest extant stories, feels unusually intimate. What he plucks out of this 3,000-year-old epic condenses his most recognizable fixations — often, men’s desires to control time and fate — into the purest feeling of hope versus hopelessness…. This is a blockbuster of literally unprecedented scale. It is also Nolan’s best work to date. It deserves to be the film that defines him.” —Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent “Thanks to a career-defining performance by Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan's biggest film so far is also one of his best…. Damon’s Odysseus is a monument to his multifacetedness as an actor…. Nolan leans on Damon’s inborn sense of contradiction so that every new chapter reinforces his character’s humanity for its folly, longing, and resolve.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire “An immense, ferocious, thundering epic whose imposing physical scale is ultimately a Trojan horse for something far more intimate: the raw longing to return home…. The film is apocalyptic, melancholic, spiritually frightening, and alive to the tragic horror of societal collapse, but it never loses its belief in loyalty, compassion, family, and perseverance.” —Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist “You may expect to see again what so many other filmmakers have shown you, and instead are presented with a new take on an old tale…. A rare modern blockbuster….” —Matt Zoller Seitz, rogerebert.com
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