Daniel Mendelsohn: “The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy”
The translator of Homer’s classic poem, now adapted for the big screen, explains the text’s enduring power
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The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric
Christopher Nolan’s film is an epic return to old-fashioned studio excess
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Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste
The family trait inherited by every member in the would-be satire is unredeemed nastiness
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Olivia Wilde’s near-perfect foursome
Seth Rogen is better than ever in dinner-party drama The Invite
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Hollywood failed Marilyn Monroe
The actress, who would have turned 100 this month, was born both too early and too late to be properly…
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Jodie Foster is a force of nature in A Private Life
But this new crime mystery struggles with a personality disorder
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Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
The patriarchal world of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day has been rewritten for our enlightened times
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Disclosure Day’s earnest hokum
Steven Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrials is as brilliantly filmed as anything he has made
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