Elon Musk, deepfakes and the wrong questions: invoking the most advanced technology to claim an alleged authenticity of the past that never even existed in Homer’s work means failing to understand either how myths work or how history works

The American classicist dismissed the adaptation of the Odyssey as a Nolan-esque combination of grandiosity and superficiality: a work that “has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history or war” and which lacks “psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth”. Response to the scathing review

The director has created a masterpiece here, just as he did with “Dunkirk”. What can we say about three hours of brilliant cinema without a single dull moment? Christopher Nolan is always brilliant. It’s cinema that has become small

By casting Nyong’o as Elena, the director is injecting a political dimension into the film. But who knows what the audience will make of it, given that they are now accustomed to an increasingly diverse society – where even the faces of film stars have become more varied – and to a world of cinema where we have already seen everything portrayed by everyone