The Odyssey is one of the most rated films on Backlot this month. People keep going back to it. When a Nolan film lands like that, it usually means one thing: they want more.
Nolan has been making big, ambitious movies for almost 30 years. His filmography is one of the best deep dives in cinema, not because every film is perfect, but because every film is his. The puzzle-box structure. The practical effects. The time tricks. The big theme hiding inside what looks like a genre movie. A heist film that turns out to be about regret. A war film that barely shows any fighting. A superhero trilogy that asks real questions about power and chaos.
The Odyssey fits right in. It's Nolan at his most epic, and at his most personal. He's been chasing the kind of scale that Homer wrote for his whole career. This is the one where he gets there.
If you've seen it and want more, start with Inception. It's the best entry point into how his brain works. Then go to Interstellar, which has the same emotional scale but set in space. Then The Dark Knight, because you have to. Then Memento, to see where all this came from. Then Oppenheimer, to see where it was going before this.
Six films. One director who genuinely cannot make anything small, even when he tries.
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