India, July 28 -- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has emerged as one of the biggest box office successes of the year. While the film has been celebrated by moviegoers and continues to perform strongly in theatres, one person whose opinion carries particular weight has been far less impressed.

Emily Wilson, the classicist whose acclaimed 2017 translation of Homer's Odyssey was cited by Nolan during the film's early promotion, has delivered a strongly critical review of the adaptation.

Emily Wilson Says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Lacks Depth

In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Wilson explained that she had expected Nolan's interpretation of the ancient Greek epic to offer a more layered take on Homer's themes but in...