Isn’t it odd that the original epic, written about 3,000 years ago, should have stronger, more easily forgiven women than a modern retelling?

Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey,” is an earthy, existential epic that melds storytelling of antiquity with contemporary IMAX-sized bravado.

Christopher Nolan successfully brings the epic into the IMAX era.

Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters

Christopher Nolan’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.

Matt Damon anchors a visually stunning epic in which the women – Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya – outshine the men.

Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Zendaya star in Christopher Nolan's vastly ambitious 'The Odyssey.'

It’s thrilling, of course, but it’s also deeply sad, poignant where it needs to be and even genuinely funny a couple of times

Christopher Nolan’s period drama is led by Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland.

Christopher Nolan's latest movie blends epic spectacle with a deeply human retelling of Homer's classic

The Odyssey movie review: Christopher Nolan’s epic finds its way home

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the…

Lupita Nyong'o calls Homer's The Odyssey sexist, but the ancient epic's women tell a far different story.

“Men used to go to war.” Christopher Nolan’s retelling of Homer’s Odyssey agrees, but also dares to ask, "And for what?"

It's old-school, swords-and-sandals cinema, yet still modern and richly satisfying.

You're gearing up to see Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, but you haven't read the Homeric work. Or you read it so long ago that it feels like you’ve never read it at all. No worries.

In a starry, stirring adaptation of Homer’s epic, the director’s signature realism grounds, without dispelling, the drama’s emotional and mythological power.

Why are women given a bigger role in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” than they were in Homer’s epic?

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" film release sparks discussions about the ancient poem. Homer's "The Odyssey" explores themes of resilience and loss across millennia. The poem…

From sex and the gods to that ending, Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation of “The Odyssey” deviates from Homer’s epic poem in a number of ways.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the talk of the town, and so is his Helen, Lupita Nyong'o, as armchair classicists argue that Helen of Troy was definitely not Black.