The anti-DEI crowd claimed the casting of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o would sink the film.
A personal caveat: While the mental gymnastics of the right-wing are as ridiculous, as they infuriating; it also needs to be said that Christopher Nolan is anything but a leftist. This article here does a good job to delve into Nolan’s political bend.



I have also heard a lot of leftwing critiques that seem compelling.
I love Ulysses and James Joyce I can’t take a modern movie butchering this old story with shallow boring masculine hero narratives that crowd out reflection on any other aspect of the human condition.