With Letterboxd at the palm of our hands, everybody truly is a critic these days, much to Christopher Nolan’s annoyance. The 2x Oscar winner recently unpacked “a real problem” with amateur film critics today, explaining there is a “very accessible modern language of storytelling” that they don’t see as necessary to filmmaking. “The criticism that’s […]

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  With Letterboxd at the palm of our hands, everybody truly is a critic these days, much to Christopher Nolan’s annoyance. The 2x Oscar winner recently unpacked “a real problem” with amateur film critics today, explaining there is a “very accessible modern language of storytelling” that they don’t see as necessary to filmmaking. “The criticism that’s […]
• Variety center

  Critics have said their piece about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now he is saying his piece about them. While on “The Odyssey” press tour, the director spoke with podcaster Zhong Shu about “a fundamental flaw of film criticism” he sees with amateur critics. “The criticism that’s often leveled at movies in general is, ‘Oh, […]
• The Atlantic left

  Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” features biblical themes and symbols that aren’t present in Homer’s poem. Luis Parrales argues that this doesn’t mean the film is Christian—but it is “God-haunted”:
• The New York Times left

  In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Christopher Nolan’s central trick in “The Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into the center of an ancient Greek epic, our columnist Ezra Klein writes.