As Matt Damon’s Odysseus fights against the odds and the gods to return home to Ithaca, he stumbles into a variety of different trials, making up some of the film’s biggest set pieces. It’s an ...

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Ask many cinephiles to pick the best American film ever made and many might pick The Godfather. That’s long been the go-to answer for most. But ask the question in a slightly different way — “What ...