Published Oct 7, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
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One of 2026’s biggest blockbusters is returning to IMAX, giving fans another chance to experience it in the premium format. Since its release, the feature has grossed over $1.7 billion worldwide and earned widespread praise from critics and audiences. Now is another opportunity to watch the movie in the format the filmmaker intended.
The Odyssey is an action-adventure fantasy feature directed by Christopher Nolan, based on Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem of the same name. The feature stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, and follows his decade-long journey home after the Trojan War. Meanwhile, his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) deal with suitors vying for Penelope’s hand. The feature made history as the first major movie shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. Because of the hype surrounding the movie and its groundbreaking use of the format, IMAX 70mm screenings were in extremely high demand while other screens had a cropped version of the movie.
Now, moviegoers have another chance to watch The Odyssey in IMAX as the feature returns to select theaters this week. Tickets for the theatrical return are on sale, so fans who missed out during its original run have another opportunity to experience it on the biggest screen possible. The Odyssey currently holds a 94% Certified Fresh critics score and a 96% Verified Hot audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with praise directed toward its performances, storytelling, and IMAX cinematography. Collider’s Joe Schmidt gave The Odyssey a 9/10 in his review, praising Nolan’s storytelling and the cast’s performances. As of writing, The Odyssey has become the second-highest-grossing film of 2026, behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as well as becoming the 11th highest-grossing film of all Time, sitting in between Zootopia 2 and Inside Out 2.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
If you missed out on getting tickets for The Odyssey’s IMAX return, don’t fret, as other highly anticipated films will be entering IMAX theaters this year. One of them is Dune: Part Three, which arrives in December and will be an IMAX exclusive in America while its rival, Avengers: Doomsday will be shown in select IMAX theaters internationally. Additionally, both Godzilla Minus Zero and The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping are coming to IMAX on November 6 and November 20, respectively.
The Odyssey will return to select IMAX theaters beginning October 9, 2026.
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