Maureen Dowd in NYT: ‘Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is a throwback to the days when Hollywood big shots fearlessly took on literary classics, undaunted by the challenges of bringing vast, thorny tales to the screen.’

And: ‘Much of the moral ambiguity has been drained to make Matt Damon’s protagonist more likable. Except for a few mournful appearances by Zendaya’s Athena, who seems more like Odysseus’s conscience than his shape-shifting partner in deception, Nolan doesn’t depict any of the major meddling gods from the story.’

As well: ‘In keeping with Gen Z’s waning interest in sex, the poem’s famous sex scenes have been excised. (…) As a headline in New York magazine wondered, “Is No One Horny in ‘The Odyssey’?”’

I haven’t seen this one yet. Nolan’s previous movie Oppenheimer was slightly boring, Dunkirk thoroughly enjoyable and utterly forgettable.

The masses want sanitized entertainment. Leave your perversions at the concession stand.

(a sf 2190)