Nolan's "The Odyssey": ambitious blockbuster about the nature of storytelling

Polish critic Jakub Popielecki reviews Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland, describing it as a nearly three-hour adaptation of Homer's epic that doubles as a meditation on storytelling itself. Popielecki notes Nolan recycles familiar building blocks from his earlier films. The review questions whether the film is what audiences need or simply what they deserve.

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