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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shahana Yasmin

Emily Wilson renews critique of Nolan’s The Odyssey with review of ‘emotionally empty’ film

A week after calling Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey “abysmal”, classicist Emily Wilson has doubled down on her criticism, describing it as “visually stunning” but “emotionally empty”.

Writing in The Atlantic, a week after her blistering review of the film for the London Review of Books, Wilson said Nolan’s adaptation ultimately fails to live up to its own ethical ambitions.

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