Director Christopher Nolan has spent much of his career crafting movies that demand the biggest screen possible, but "The Odyssey" may be the clearest realization yet of that ambition. Shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, the filmmaker's adaptation of Homer's legendary epic isn't simply a movie you watch...it's an experience. Nearly every frame is built for towering screens, every action sequence rattles the theater, and Ludwig Goransson's thunderous score ensures the experience is felt as...

Director Olivia Wilde has found the perfect project for her third outing behind the camera. After the whip-smart coming-of-age charm of "Booksmart" and the ambitious but divisive "Don't Worry Darling," her newest attempt, called "The Invite," strips everything down to the essentials in the best way possible. "The Invite" features four actors, one apartment, and a screenplay that weaponizes every uncomfortable silence, sideways glance, and brutally honest confession. The result is one of the...

"I'll embarrass myself, Dottie. I'll say something I regret." Most biopics flatten people. They take a life that was messy, contradictory, occasionally ugly, and sand it down until it fits neatly into a two-hour arc you can applaud on the way out. "I Swear" doesn't quite escape that gravitational pull, but it pushes against it in ways that matter, not by reinventing the form, but by paying closer attention to the person at the center of it. That person is John Davidson (Robert Aramayo),...