The Odyssey

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Odysseus, king of Ithaca, embarks on a perilous journey to return home after the Trojan War. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea with his fellow soldiers, they soon find themselves battling not only the elements, but an array of deadly obstacles and mythical creatures along the way.

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Critics Consensus

Reinvigorating an ancient adventure with majestic sweep and sterling work by its colossal ensemble, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey imbues myth with primal human feeling.

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A cinematic epic fit for the biggest screens, The Odyssey proves with technical precision and unrestrained grandeur that there’s no filmmaker quite like Christopher Nolan to steer Odysseus’ voyage home.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

3d

What you really need to do is keep your eyes wide open while enjoying a titanic film that may not be perfect but will keep you glued to your seat and eager to talk about it on the way out. [Full review in Spanish]

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Dwight Brown

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4d

4/4

Audiences who start this sojourn will finish it. Like Odysseus, they won’t stop.

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Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films

Jul 25

Like the filmmaker’s last work, ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Odyssey’ has a downbeat, apocalyptic bent—but, unlike ‘Oppenheimer,’ or any previous Nolan film, the new film is also centrally about what human beings owe one another.

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Natasha Alvar

The Fiction Department

23h

5/5

[Nolan's] adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t entirely faithful, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s a lush, expansive reinterpretation of what war, violence and conquest does to human civilisation. [...] an absolute beast of a film.

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Beau Behan

Patch.com

1d

Nolan shapes "The Odyssey" into a study of extremity — not as spectacle, but as humanity laid bare.

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Marlon Wallace

The M Report (WBOC.com)

2d

Walking out of it, I had the same feeling as I did walking out of Nolan's previous six. I appreciated the craft and the technical achievement, but emotionally I couldn't care less.

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James C

2d

It was good. Love Matt Damon and how different the cast all was. The cyclops was unexpected and the attention to detail was refreshing.

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Isabel

2d

Man this movie is truly a masterpiece.

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Christian G

2d

Awesome movie!!! Sooo many amazing performances!

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WJ W

2d

Beautifully and powerfully shot, great casting, compelling story, and entertaining from start to finish.

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Matt

2d

Beautiful. Nolan is in another league of his own.

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Riley

3d

This was my second time seeing it and I just genuinely love everything about it

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Synopsis

Odysseus, king of Ithaca, embarks on a perilous journey to return home after the Trojan War. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea with his fellow soldiers, they soon find themselves battling not only the elements, but an array of deadly obstacles and mythical creatures along the way.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Syncopy, Universal Pictures
Rating: R (Violence and Some Language)
Genre: Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 17, 2026, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $395.6M
Runtime: 2h 53m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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