Charlize Theron looked incredible in two outfits as she joined Matt Damon at the Odyssey premiere in Beijing, China on Thursday.
The actress, 50, who plays Calypso in the epic Christopher Nolan film, wowed in a plunging black statement gown and a fringed gold number for the stunning looks.
The daring black gown featured a pretty silver lace trim and was teamed with strappy heels to boost her height.
For her second look for the meet and greet she turned heads in the sheer gold number which showed off plenty of leg.
Matt meanwhile opted for two dapper suits as he posed with Charlize as the press tour for the big budget movie continues.
The film is an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic the Odyssey, which sees the titular Greek King embark on a perilous journey home after the Trojan War in a bid to reunite with his beloved wife Penelope.
Charlize Theron looked incredible in two outfits as she joined Matt Damon at the Odyssey premiere in Beijing, China on Thursday
The actress, 50, who plays Calypso in the epic Christopher Nolan film, wowed in a plunging black statement gown and a fringed gold number for two stunning looks
Matt is starring as the titular hero Odysseus, while Devil Wears Prada icon Anne Hathaway plays his devoted queen, who is forced to fend off potential suitors in her husband’s absence.
While Charlize’s Calypso is the nymph who keeps Odysseus trapped on her island, Ogygia, for seven years after the Trojan War.
Nolan has reached a career high with his epic take on Homer’s The Odyssey, with five star reviews for the star-studded movie flooding in from around the globe soon after it was released.
The Odyssey has achieved a near-perfect score on review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes with a current standing of 99 per cent.
That 99 per cent score places Nolan’s 13th feature film at the top of the pile of his past movies with The Dark Knight trailing behind with a 94 per cent critic score.
The reviews for The Odyssey are almost universal in their soaring praise and five star ratings.
The Daily Mail’s Brian Viner declared that ‘Nolan’s film – its star-studded cast led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Zendaya – is a glorious cinematic experience, a triumph both of story-telling and movie-making.’
Viner added: ‘I rarely say this of movies nearly three hours long – one viewing simply isn’t enough.’
The daring black gown featured a pretty silver lace trim and was teamed with strappy heels to boost her height
For her second look for the meet and greet she turned heads in the sheer gold number which showed off plenty of leg
Charlize’s Calypso is the nymph who keeps Odysseus trapped on her island, Ogygia, for seven years after the Trojan War
Nolan has reached a career high with his epic take on Homer’s The Odyssey, with five star reviews for the star-studded movie flooding in from around the globe soon after it was released
Charlize kindly signed autographs for fans
Peter Bradshaw for the Guardian in another five star review went one step further, writing that ‘Nolan goes god-tier with a breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis.’
‘This is a film with thrilling ambition, boldness, seriousness, generosity and flair. There are some broad-brush moments in the dialogue, yes, but even these are applied with a muscular flourish.’
Any minor criticisms hone in on Nolan’s choice to modernise the dialogue and deviate from his source material.
John Nugent for Empire writes that ‘it is as elegant and economical an adaptation as it’s possible to make of such a lengthy tome, and you don’t need a Classics degree to understand it. Some purists may bristle at the liberties taken with the text, with significant omissions.’
‘The dialogue inevitably loses some of the poetry and lyricism of the original text; no dactylic hexameter here. But what it loses in faithfulness, it gains in visual and structural poetry.’
Writing for The Times though, historian Mary Beard said ‘I liked that Telemachus (Tom Holland) refers to Odysseus as ‘Dad’ (though I suspect some viewers may feel differently). This is an epic, and a myth, in the here and now, not set in a hoary past.’
David Rooney for The Hollywood Reporter calls it ‘a meditative action movie both immense and intimate, albeit one whose flow is impeded by the inherently episodic nature of the nonlinear source material and some questionable casting choices.’
Rooney singles out Tom Holland, who plays the son of Matt Damon’s Odysseus, Telemachus, deciding that ‘while he is always an appealing screen presence, he is wrong for the role.’
‘Like [Robert] Pattinson, the Brit actor plays his character with an American accent. But he comes across as, well, Peter Parker in a tunic, sapping the gravitas from Telemachus’ path to maturity.’
Deadline‘s Gregory Nussen disagreed though, calling Holland’s performance ‘his strongest one to date.’
‘His performance certainly seems tinged with the courageous naivety of Spider-Man, insisting on trying to influence those much more cunning and physically capable than he,’ he wrote. ‘Holland may be playing a child, but his performance is bursting with a newfound maturity.’
Other critics hailed the female actors.
Ahead of the review embargo lifting the film had received heaps of attention for all the wrong reasons – sparking backlash over its ‘bizarre’ casting, being accused of fuelling ‘brutal repression’ and sending Elon Musk into meltdown.
Nolan recently defended his decision to cast Kenyan actress Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, after Musk called the casting ‘historically inaccurate.’
The likes of Clarisse Loughrey in her five star review for The Independent said the film is ‘brought to life by a cast of seemingly thousands – but it’s the women (among them Anne Hathaway and Samantha Morton) who steal the show.’
RogerEbert.com Editor-at-Large Matt Zoller Seitz meanwhile called Nolan’s casting ‘not just defensible but inspiring.’
The Odyssey has achieved a near-perfect score on review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes with a current standing of 99 per cent
She put on a typically confident display as she posed up a storm in the stunning black and silver gown
Matt is starring as the titular hero Odysseus, while Devil Wears Prada icon Anne Hathaway plays his devoted queen, who is forced to fend off potential suitors in her husband’s absence
Financial Times Danny Leigh said Nyong’o ‘deserves more screen time’, labelling the performance as ‘vivid and bristling’ whilst ‘Holland, still playing boys at 30, is comic-book basic.’
There was of course praise for Nolan’s directing, with Hoai-Tran Bui for Inverse writing that ‘it feels like Nolan is turning a new page in his filmography; a film that continues the soul-searching introspection that his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer grappled with, and deepens our understanding of one of the oldest stories in history.’
‘But it’s also a crowdpleaser in every sense of the word, a rousing and spectacular feat of blockbuster entertainment that wrestles with monsters and myths in equally dazzling ways.’
Robbie Collin, critic for The Telegraph said ‘Nolan and his collaborators have constructed a strange, fearsome and trailblazing machine of a movie – by some distance, the best of the year so far.’
‘Its creator is known for playing tricks with time, and this may be his grandest yet: turning one of the oldest stories in literature into a vote of confidence in blockbuster cinema’s future.’
In a five-star review, Metro’s Tori Brazier said, external The Odyssey was ‘a watershed moment for filmmaking’.
Guy Lodge for Variety wrote that Nolan’s ‘take on Homer is thorough, robust and attentive both to scholarly detail and old-school moviemaking craft.’
‘A genuinely grand, gutsy vision, The Odyssey thrills generously for the bulk of its near three-hour running time.
Amongst the praise, Stephanie Zacharek for Time labeled The Odyssey an ‘eye-glazing dud of a movie.’
The film critic used the battle scenes as an example, penning that despite being ‘elaborate,’ they ‘are so tastefully un-bloody that it’s hard to feel there’s anything at stake.’
Samantha Morton’s performance in the film was applauded, with one of her scenes in the movie being called ‘the only truly good one.’
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