Christopher Nolan’s thematic obsessions — memory, self-identity, free will, the passage of time — are under “The Odyssey’s” wine-dark seas, says Times film critic Amy Nicholson. “Basically, Matt Damon’s Odysseus is Oppen-dysseus and the Trojan horse is his atomic bomb,” she says in her review of the film.
Amy Nicholson is the film critic of the Los Angeles Times. She is a current on-air voice at LAist and KCRW, and a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. and the National Society of Film Critics. Her book “Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor” was printed by Cahiers du Cinema/Phaidon Press, and her second, “Extra Girls,” will be published by Simon & Schuster. Nicholson also co-hosts the movie podcast “Unspooled.”
Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.
