Nor is it his fault that his films, at least the ones after The Dark Knight, tend to go down better with men.
And nor, of course, should this stop women reviewing them.
Be it Bridget Jones or The Football Factory or The Zone of Interest, art shows you lives other than your own.
Engaging with stuff that isn't a mirror, or for which you may not be exactly the target demographic, is sort of the point.
Yet the only review of The Odyssey I've so far read with which I broadly agree was written by Stephanie Zacharek for Time.
This probably isn't much of a spoiler by now, but she didn't really like it.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of reviews have been raves, and the vast majority were written by men (that eight-to-one ratio seems a bit optimistic these days).
And so I couldn't help but wonder, to paraphrase a journalist unlikely to be first in the queue on opening weekend: will women go and see The Odyssey?
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And if they do, will they enjoy it as much as men?
In fact if Carrie Bradshaw did see it, she'd understandably be transfixed by one unavoidable byproduct of high-resolution Imax: everyone's pores are absolutely enormous.
Watching scenes with lots of closeups in them is like looking at yourself in one of those 12x magnification mirrors – ie, upsetting.
Anyway, will women see their experiences represented with anything like the depth, accuracy or interest of their male counterparts?
