“This tormented, guilt-ridden Odysseus, stripped of humor and wit, seductiveness and cleverness, is a sibling of Memento’s anguished amnesiac, of Batman, of Oppenheimer, men tormented by pasts they wrestle with in different ways,”

Daniel Mendelsohn · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-19

Mendelsohn wrote in The New York Review of Books that Nolan's Odysseus resembles protagonists from his previous films.