{"id":693651,"date":"2026-07-15T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:11:15","slug":"the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-film-starring-matt-damon-and-zendaya-receives-rave-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693651\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan film starring Matt Damon and Zendaya receives rave reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Universal Studios will have high hopes for the film at the box office, after Oppenheimer took $975m (\u00a3723m) globally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Oppenheimer enjoyed a huge audience boost from the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the 2023 viral trend that prompted movie fans to buy tickets to see Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Odyssey is a film with &#8220;thrilling ambition, boldness, seriousness, generosity and flair&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/15\/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote the Guardian&#8217;s Peter Bradshaw, external<\/a>, awarding five stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are some broad-brush moments in the dialogue, yes, but even these are applied with a muscular flourish,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Odyssey is &#8220;the definition of epic&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/the-odyssey-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Empire&#8217;s John Nugent,, external<\/a> in another five-star review. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The scale and scope here is, frankly, jaw-detaching,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is filmmaking at a magnitude few modern directors could ever realistically imagine, demand, or execute.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Studios will have high hopes for the film at the box office, after Oppenheimer took $975m (\u00a3723m)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}