{"id":556808,"date":"2026-07-19T01:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:42:18","slug":"the-odyssey-just-landed-on-this-list-of-the-10-best-films-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556808\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Odyssey\u2019 just landed on this list of the 10 best films of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Odyssey<\/a> here and, like a vengeful sea god, it\u2019s sweeping all before it at the box office and with critics. It already looks like a hot favourite for Best Picture and a shoo-in for most best of the year list \u2013 including Time Out\u2019s, where it comes straight in at number 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Alongside Oppenheimer<\/a>, The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan\u2019s finest work as a solo screenwriter,\u2019 says Time Out\u2019s review. \u2018It\u2019s an epic weaned on DeMille, Lean and Harryhausen, but the screenplay finds detail and nuance in the intimate moments too.\u2019
\u2018Even among all the truck flips, atomic explosions and rotating corridors of his back catalogue, this film is the apogee of Nolan\u2019s \u201cdo it in camera\u201d ethos, and the sense that this was a shoot with no comfort zone pervades every frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also in the top 5 are Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s heartbreaking Palestine war docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a>, Kane Parson\u2019s smash-hit liminal horror Backrooms<\/a>, the techno-fuelled desert thriller Sir\u00e2t<\/a>, and Olivia Wilde\u2019s barnstorming marital comedy The Invite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A new addition to the top 10 is heartsore documentary Remake<\/a>, a follow-up of sorts to Ross McElwee\u2019s cult breakthrough doc Sherman\u2019s March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nPhotograph: Black Bear\u2018The Invite\u2019 <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the top 10 in full:<\/p>\n

10. Project Hail Mary
9. La Grazia
8. Sound of Falling
7. If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You
6. Remake
5. The Invite
4. Sir\u00e2t
3. Backrooms
2. The Voice of Hind Rajab
1. The Odyssey<\/p>\n

Read our full list of the year\u2019s best films to date here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7 spectacular The Odyssey filming locations to visit \u2013 and where to stay when you get there<\/a>.
The best TV and streaming shows of the year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Odyssey here and, like a vengeful sea god, it\u2019s sweeping all before it at the box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[235444,93,1043,61,60,270,235445],"class_list":["post-556808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-categories-film","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}