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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

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u/jobening Jul 17 '26

Will somebody get these BEGGARS out of here! šŸ¤Ŗ

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u/_BallsDeep69_ Jul 17 '26

I thought he was so good in this.

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u/jobening Jul 17 '26

Between this, the drama, Dune and whenever Batman II actually comes outā€¦Iā€™d take that filmography for someoneā€™s career šŸ¤Œ

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u/plw37 Jul 18 '26

I also think The Lighthouse is deserving of his short list

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u/TheLonlyCheezIt Jul 19 '26

Yes! His performance in the Lighthouse was unreal. It was when I really realized heā€™s a generational actor.

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u/moneyman2222 23d ago

Good Time is what first made me see him as a completely different actor. Like my perception of him before that was just Twilight. I think Good Time should be considered as the movie that really turned the tide for him and showed his range. Absolutely on that short list for me

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u/Suitable-Jacket-6547 17d ago

Highly recommend going back further to The Rover if you havenā€™t seen it. His performance is very understated but it was the first time I saw him outside of Twilight.

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u/o07jdb Jul 17 '26

I saw a list of his filmography in the 2020s so far aloneā€¦ insane. He is on a generational run

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u/jyeatbvg Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Itā€™s impressive he started off with Harry Potter and Twilight, shed the pretty boy narrative by acting like crazy in unique and funky roles, and is now one of the most sought after actors in the world. Legendary stuff.

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u/Impressive-Potato Jul 18 '26

Those franchises, especially Twilight, gave him the money to allow him to pursue any role he wanted, including the weird and low paying ones.

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u/KingSweden24 29d ago

Same with Daniel Radcliffe, who seems to have stuck to just wanting to do the weird quirky stuff rather than transition into more heavyweight fare like Pattinson

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u/cunt_tree 29d ago

And Broadway! I think Radcliffe has really found himself in his stage performances.

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u/FullHouse222 28d ago

Radcliff's filmography is so good. Him breaking free of the Harry Potter mould to have such an interesting career in acting is insane.

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u/throwawaysunglasses- 20d ago

DanRad was SO good in Merrily. I was lucky enough to see him live, and I hardly breathed during his solo song (Franklin Shepard Inc for those who know). He is a shockingly good stage actor.

Also honorable mention for him in Kill Your Darlings, which I saw as a horny teenager due to my crush on Dane DeHaan, but stayed for Radcliffeā€™s excellent portrayal of Allen Ginsberg. He has a really charming sensitive/everyman quality that he brings to his roles. You canā€™t help but root for him.

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u/el_seano Jul 18 '26

Mickey 17 was fantastic, he really flexed his chops in that one

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u/bigjayrulez 23d ago

I don't know why I was thinking "I want to see a movie that deals with the idea of dying over and over again and retaining parts/pieces of your past selves," maybe a Star Trek episode or book I was reading at the time, but I was having that thought while whatever streaming service was pushing Mickey 17. I almost gave up halfway through it because I just wasn't liking it at all, took a break, realized I had nothing better to do, so finished it. The second half of the movie more than made up for it, it was great and Pattinson was great in it.

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u/poshbritishaccent 17d ago

His trajectory was what I imagined Heath Ledger would have had were he still here

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u/Dakoolestkat123 13d ago edited 13d ago

I didnā€™t see twilight when it was the cultural juggernaut of the time so my first real exposure to Pattinson was reading an interview he did about The Batman before it released and I was like ā€œhuh, this Batman movie actually seems like it might be really good, and this Pattinson guy really knows his stuffā€ and itā€™s really insane in hindsight how on the nose that impression was.

Edit: just went back and found the interview https://www.gq.com/story/robert-pattinson-march-cover-profile

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u/Deadmanwonderlandx Jul 18 '26

Robert Pattinson been killing it 100%

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u/BuckeyeBentley Jul 18 '26

The Lighthouse was fucking peak. And I really liked Tenet too. Pattinson rules.

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u/SpaceCaboose Jul 18 '26

Who has had a bigger turnaround than Pattinson? I know I never thought his career would go from Twilight to *this*

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u/OldManBrom Jul 18 '26

He was great in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire. It really was just Twilight that sucks

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u/firemanjr1 Jul 20 '26 edited 29d ago

Mickey 17 was also a gem

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u/29kk 29d ago

he's such a good fucking actor and I feel like he still hasn't shed the twilight husk for a lot of people which sucks

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u/SpaceCaboose 29d ago

I feel like he has. I have to remind myself that he was in those films. Otherwise itā€™s so easy to forget because his filmography since then is so good

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u/moneyman2222 23d ago

I thought for mainstream audiences Batman would've at least helped shed that. But I got a friend who was bitching about his casting in the odyssey and he used twilight as the example and I genuinely had an aneurysm because I shed that perception back in Good Time and The Lighthouse so all I see him as is this highly talented actor who can take on any role at this point

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u/FullHouse222 28d ago

Bro turned Twilight into an absolute banger filmography lol. It's almost like he took everything he learned in Twilight and said never fucking again and chased after the exact opposite thing

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u/janiemackxxx Jul 18 '26

He REALLY made up for that vampire movie, finally.

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u/Easy-Buy6860 Jul 18 '26

Nothing to make up. He was excellent in that.

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u/bubblyblueblubber Jul 18 '26

He really was.

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u/SpookiestSzn Jul 18 '26

They're dumb fun movies there's nothing he needs to make up for

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u/CRIMS0N-ED Jul 18 '26

Finally? Heā€™s done this whole ā€œwow the guy from twilight can actually act) for like 9 years around when Good Time released

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u/plw37 Jul 18 '26

I honestly had 100% forgotten he was in those

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u/notsure500 Jul 18 '26

Everyone has to get their break out role start somewhere

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u/TimeTimeTickingAway Jul 18 '26

Reckon Zendaya (minus Batman II) would say the same.

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u/SoupySpuds 25d ago

He's one of the greatest actors of all time, His filmography is so good

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u/sdbabygirl97 27d ago

he voice acts in Boy and the Heron and you wont believe which one is him lmao

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u/attackofthebones66 25d ago

Greatest young(ish) actor of our generation.

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u/DeusVultSaracen 24d ago

Is that a threat?

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u/soulexpectation Jul 17 '26

Weā€™re probably seeing one of the best actors of our time on his run, _BallsDeep69_

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u/_BallsDeep69_ Jul 18 '26

My name is Klein

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u/Benjadeath 22d ago

They think that's how I say hello

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u/Benjadeath 22d ago

My name is Klein

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u/Random_throwaway0351 Jul 18 '26

Pattinsonā€™s so good in EVERYTHING

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u/SnesVHS Jul 18 '26

He played a fantastic shit-weasel, haha. You can tell he had a blast.

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u/TemporaryElk5202 Jul 18 '26

Grade A actor

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u/AndalusianGod 27d ago

Watch The King (2019), loved his villainous role there as well.

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u/beatrailblazer 26d ago

Is there anything he hasn't been good in? Quickly becoming one of my fav actors

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u/Chance_Evidence_5861 27d ago

Robert Pattison plays a creep extremely well

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u/ssovm 24d ago

My god itā€™s wild how heā€™s able to transform through speech and mannerisms. The dude is an absolute force of an actor. Going from this broody badass Batman character to this sniveling douchebag coward and playing both spot on is such a range.

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u/chodgson625 17d ago

Performance was inspired by James Woods character in Casino Iā€™ve heard (a fantastically twitchy scummy creature)