Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opened to a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes on July 17, 2026 — Nolan’s highest-rated film ever — with critics praising what LA Times reviewer Amy Nicholson described as Nolan “grabbing mighty scissors” to “cut and rejigg Homer and a bit of Virgil to transform the classical texts into his type of tale.” For fans and scholars who care about Homer’s original epic — the homecoming of Odysseus, Penelope’s faithfulness, Telemachus’s coming of age, the theme of a man returning to what matters — that description is not a compliment. The critical establishment’s celebration of Nolan’s Homer rewrite confirms exactly what fans feared from the casting controversies: The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan’s film, not Homer’s.
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