Pick Three: Richard Brody on “The Odyssey” and Other Summer Films
In a conversation with David Remnick, The New Yorker's film critic Richard Brody reviews Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster The Odyssey, a stylized, human-centric reinterpretation of Homer’s epic that downplays the gods and reimagines Odysseus as a PTSD-stricken war hero. Brody critiqu
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