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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Nick Howells

The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan has made an epic worthy of the gods

When the floor of the BFI IMAX quakes and the sound thunders up through the seats and into people’s bodies, it’s no false omen. It’s a pant-shaking signal that for the next three, humdinging hours you’re in for a colossal piece of cinema.

Arguments will rage for aeons among Nolanites, but forget Oppenheimer (too biopic-y, not bomb-y enough), Inception or The Dark Knight — this is Christopher Nolan’s most towering achievement yet.

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