Film Criticism

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is a Masterpiece of Misdirection

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey will be a masterpiece of misdirection: a grand, sterile spectacle that replaces the epic’s primal humanism with cold intellectualism. No sex, no sweat, no messy vulnerability—just a perfect, empty machine. And that’s precisely the problem, and the mirror.