What Nolan Did (and Didn’t) Achieve

‘The Odyssey’ is the most Christopher Nolan film he has ever made

“The Odyssey” is one of the most ambitious and purely entertaining motion picture endeavors of the year, but it also feels like the logical, inevitable climax of the career of the writer/director who conceived of it.  Christopher Nolan has evolved from promising indie darling to one of the biggest directors on the planet in the last quarter century. As the scope and physical scale of his films have increased, his predilection for nonlinear story…

What Nolan did (and didn’t) achieve

The epic of endless reinvention Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster summer movie “The Odyssey” is cause for celebration for those who care about the literature and culture of ancient Greece.