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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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

Aug 6

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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Aug 5

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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David Nusair

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8h

1/4

The Odyssey, which climaxes with an endless (and barely coherent) fight sequence, ultimately comes off as a palpable misfire that feels so, so much longer than its interminable 172 (!) minutes.

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Robert W. Butler

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B

What I took away from my experience was a sense of awe at the technical precision on display, a real sense of a journey that covers two decades, some riveting set pieces and a frustrating lack of emotional involvement.

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Monita Roy Mohan

Stereo Geeks (Podcast)

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I’m delighted with this rendition of The Odyssey. It’s effortlessly inclusive, it’s a grand, epic story, and it’s also a heartfelt reckoning of humanity facing our own flaws. Yes, the women deserved better, but the performances are excellent.

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Amanda

1h

Excellent. Very well done and perfect acting the whole way. I hate long movies but this was worth every minute.

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Phillip

1h

A good watch - good production, story, acting. Overall very entertaining even though it was almost 3 hrs long. 5 stars!

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Painfulkaboom

2h

Overall very great movie watching it in IMAX 70mm was amazing however other formats will still have you enjoying what the film has to offer

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Samuel

3h

I didn’t want to go see the movie at all when it first came out but thought why not since it had been out for so long. I went in a full on hater of the movie and the casting and the errors in historical accuracy but the movie is so amazing about a quarter of the way in I didn’t care about that anymore. Great movie and Christopher Nolan did it again!

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Lionel

3h

An amazing movie! Lost for words!

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Paul G

4h

Great acting and true to the epic poem.

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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): $563.9M
Runtime: 2h 52m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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