{"id":785552,"date":"2026-07-07T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785552\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:11","slug":"the-odyssey-first-reactions-hail-christopher-nolans-greatest-work-cast-praised-for-best-performances-of-their-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785552\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey first reactions hail Christopher Nolan&#8217;s greatest work, cast praised for &#8216;best performances of their career&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cast hailed for career-best performances<\/p>\n<p>The critics were equivocal in their praise for the film\u2019s star-studded cast. The Odyssey stars <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/matt-damon\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Matt Damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Damon<\/a> as Odysseus, alongside Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and a large ensemble. Praising the actors, Variety\u2019s Jazz Tangcay wrote, \u201cThe performances from Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, John Leguizamo, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong\u2019o are genuinely grand. And for some, truly, the best performances of their career.\u201d Writing in similar vein, film journalist Simon Thompson added, \u201cLeading a stellar cast, Matt Damon gives Odysseus everything in a career-best powerhouse performance. Robert Pattinson is outstanding as Antinous and John Leguizamo\u2019s Eumaeus is sublime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cast hailed for career-best performances The critics were equivocal in their praise for the film\u2019s star-studded cast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,101938,75,26831,50503,29185,277764],"class_list":["post-785552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-robert-pattinson","tag-the-odyssey","tag-the-odyssey-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}