Author Joyce Carol Oates came to the defense of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” after translator Emily Wilson wrote a viral review attacking the film.

“Instead of collegially disagreeing with Homer’s interpretations, this person, who has benefited greatly from Nolan’s film, speaks in the raw language of the MAGA crowd attacking someone with ideas that differ from her own,” Carol wrote in

Wilson, who translated a 2017 version of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” criticized Nolan’s interpretation in a review for the London Review of Books. He wrote that the film lacked “psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth” and had “nothing compelling to say.”

Wilson’s review says: “I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity for these Homeric themes might take him to new creative heights and allow him to conjure up more believable characters. But ‘The Odyssey’ presents his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality… the film’s vision is too muddled, its characters too underdeveloped, to deliver what it half-promises in terms of big ideas, though it is very good at conveying big explosions and big behemoths.”

He later added: “The writing is abysmal. None of the characters have a compelling motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes and all the food looks horrible.”

Nolan previously praised Wilson for his translation of the ancient text. He told Empire that he used the first line of his version, “Tell me about a complicated man,” as a north star in developing Matt Damon’s role as Odysseus.