Hollywood's critical fraternity has showered praise on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey after the movie premiered in London on Monday.Fan backlash has been gathering over the hiring of black performers Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya and Travis Scott in an adaptation of a Greek epic.Inasmuch as Scott is a rapper who had never held a major acting role before, his enlistment to play the bard was also criticized as a piece of stunt casting.Trans actor Elliot Page has drawn brickbats as well, on account of his inclusion in the picture as an ill-fated young member of Odysseus' crew called Elpenor.After months of mounting online fury, however, the professional critics rendered a resoundingly positive verdict on X ahead of the lifting of the official review embargo.'Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey is an absolute triumph and a crowning cinematic achievement from one of the great filmmakers of our time,' raved author Erik Davis.The Daily Mail has contacted Nolan's representative for comment. Hollywood's critical fraternity has showered praise on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey after the movie premiered in London on Monday; Damon is picturedNolan's movie of The Odyssey has been hotly anticipated for years, with an all-star cast including Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope.Tom Holland features as the couple's son Telemachus, while his wife and Spider-Man co-star Zendaya is playing the goddess Athena.Robert Pattinson plays the villainous role of Penelope's suitor Antinous, with Charlize Theron and Samantha Morton respectively as the goddesses Calypso and Circe.Jon Bernthal plays the Spartan king Menelaus and Benny Safdie has been cast as his brother Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae.Erik Davis rhapsodized on X: 'It feels like everything Nolan has been working toward with IMAX has culminated here. The production design is incredible, the action is breathtaking, and the scale is unlike anything he's done before.'He reserved particular praise for the 'horror' sequences, crediting the picture for striking a balance between 'genuinely unsettling' the audience 'while never losing sight of the humanity at the story's core.' Davis also opined that 'everyone' in the 'stacked' cast got 'a chance to shine,' singling out Damon, Hathaway and Holland for particular plaudits before confessing that Pattinson 'absolutely stole the show for me.'He insisted: 'Look, it's the must-see cinematic event of the summer -- and quite possibly the year. I can't wait to watch it again.' Nolan's movie of The Odyssey has been hotly anticipated for years, with an all-star cast including Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as the goddess Athena The official X account for The Odyssey has restricted comments amid a backlash over such decisions as the casting of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra'Christopher Nolan is a visionary, and #TheOdyssey is a work of art,' declared Jazz Tangcay of Variety. 'He has outdone himself. You could feel the passion in his storytelling. You feel the passion in the crafts and the acting.'Discussing Film co-owner Andrew J Salazar breathlessly wrote that 'Samantha Morton’s sequence in THE ODYSSEY is perhaps the best of the entire film and we’re going to be talking about it for years to come. If you know, you know. Nolan tapping into a side he hasn’t really shown before.''My high expectations were met at Chris Nolan's stunningly mounted The Odyssey in IMAX 70 mm,' gushed Anne Thompson of IndieWire.She tabled Damon as a possible best actor winner at the Oscars, added that many of the supporting performers could also secure nominations and concluded that The Odyssey was the best picture contender 'to beat.'David Ehrlich of the same publication described The Odyssey as 'a surprisingly natural (and less despairing)' follow-up to Nolan's previous film Oppenheimer.He offered less unreserved praise than some of his confreres, writing that the picture was 'too clunky to be S-tier Nolan, but the last act rewards the journey.' Meanwhile the fan criticism has grown so intense online that the official X account for Nolan's Odyssey has restricted comments on its posts.Elon Musk, the owner of X, was among the public figures to express his opposition to Nyong'o, 43, being cast as Helen of Troy in the film. Trans actor Elliot Page, pictured at the film's London premiere on Monday, has drawn brickbats over his inclusion in the picture as an ill-fated member of Odysseus' crew called Elpenor Nolan has strenuously defended his decision to hire Travis Scott, which was criticized as a piece of stunt casting; Scott pictured at the film's London premiereHelen is the ravishing daughter of Zeus whose 'face launched a thousand ships,' in that her seduction by Troy's prince Paris resulted in the Trojan War.Nyong'o, who won an Oscar for the 2013 historical drama 12 Years a Slave, will also feature in the film as Helen's sister Clytemnestra.Her hiring provoked a fierce response on X, including from conservative pundit Matt Walsh, who fumed that nobody 'on the planet' regards Nyong'o as the world's greatest beauty but that Nolan 'knows that he would be called racist if he gave "the most beautiful woman" role to a white woman.'Musk, who owns the social media platform, responded to Walsh by writing: 'True,' eliciting pushback by outspoken liberals like Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Kimmel.Nyong'o faced another round of blowback this week over her response to a question about what she would ask Homer if she met him today.'So, Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little you spent with them? Remember us?' she said on Jake's Takes.Social media users poured scorn on Nyong'o, joking that her reply was 'straight out of idiocracy' and that she 'thinks it's still 2016 and everyone is going to stand up, clap and yell, "YAAAASSSSS QUEEN."'Nyong'o recently confessed she 'really had no idea what The Odyssey was' when she was first approached for the project, in an interview with Elle. Nyong'o, pictured at last year's Academy Museum Gala, faced another round of blowback this week over her response to question about what she would ask Homer if she met him today 'I was like: "Oh, snap, I don’t know the first thing about this." So it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education,' acknowledged the Kenyan-Mexican actress.Meanwhile Elliot Page - who rocketed to fame as Ellen Page with an Oscar-nominated turn in the 2007 film Juno - was heaped with opprobrium after becoming the subject of false rumors he would be playing the legendary warrior Achilles in The Odyssey.When the speculation began circulating, Musk slated the potential hiring choice as 'one of the dumbest and twisted things I’ve ever heard.'It later emerged that Page would in fact be playing Elpenor, a young member of Odysseus' crew who dies by accidentally falling from a roof drunk, and whom Odysseus later encounters in the underworld.After news broke of Page's actual role, Musk reposted a tweet that read: 'I'm not mocking her masculinity. I'm denying its existence.'In May, Nolan gave an interview explaining the creative impetus for his hiring of Travis Scott, a world-famous rapper who was nevertheless untested as an actor.'I cast him,' Nolan explained to Time: 'because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.'