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July 2026

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Is a Monumental Epic With a Human Soul

by Lee Shoquist
July 17, 2026

A year after its first teaser began selling out advance IMAX screenings, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives as a staggering movie, so big-canvas and exciting, yet so humanly observed, that it recalls the long-lost Hollywood epic, where heroic adventures were told with both scope…

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The Invite: A Dinner Party with Bite, and A Riotous Return of the Sex Comedy

by Lee Shoquist
July 3, 2026

Sexiness is back in American movies after an era of intimacy-averse Hollywood that all but erased the freewheeling “sex comedy” from screens. The reasons for its extended hiatus are many—polling from turned-off young moviegoers, post-#MeToo intimacy coordination and A-lister anxieties about viral screen grabs.…

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Lee Shoquist is a film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and leads over 20 monthly film discussion groups with more than three hundred, multi-generational attendees across the Chicago area and periodically in New York and Los Angeles. Learn more or contact Lee.

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