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Universal Studios will have high hopes for the film at the box office, after Oppenheimer took $975m (£723m) globally.
However, Oppenheimer enjoyed a huge audience boost from the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the 2023 viral trend that prompted movie fans to buy tickets to see Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day.
The Odyssey is a film with "thrilling ambition, boldness, seriousness, generosity and flair", wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, external, awarding five stars
"There are some broad-brush moments in the dialogue, yes, but even these are applied with a muscular flourish," he added.
The Odyssey is "the definition of epic", according to Empire's John Nugent,, external in another five-star review.
"The scale and scope here is, frankly, jaw-detaching," he said. "It is filmmaking at a magnitude few modern directors could ever realistically imagine, demand, or execute."