Interstellar
Academy Award × 1
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The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
What critics thought
Critics at release were broadly impressed by Nolan's visual and conceptual ambition but split sharply over whether the film's emotional core lands or gets swallowed by its own science — with dialogue, pacing, and thinly drawn characters drawing consistent complaints even from admirers. A decade on, that divide has largely resolved in the film's favor: audience affection has quietly outrun the initial critical hedging, elevating it toward classic status in a way the original reviews did not quite predict.
“brainy, barmy, and beautiful to behold ... a mind-bending opera of space and time with a soul wrapped up in all the science.”
James Dyer·Empire
“This grandly conceived and executed epic tries to give equal weight to intimate human emotions and speculation about the cosmos, with mixed results, but is never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that.”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“a glorious spectacle, but a slight drama, with few characters and too-rare flashes of humour”
Henry Barnes·The Guardian
“[Interstellar] is still an impressive, at times astonishing movie that overwhelmed me to the point where my usual objections to Nolan's work melted away ... At times, the movie's one-stop-shopping storytelling evokes the tough-tender spirit of a John Ford picture ... a movie that would rather try to be eight or nine things than just one.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·RogerEbert.com
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorChristopher Nolan
StarringMatthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck
ComposerHans Zimmer
Interstellar
Academy Award × 1
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
What critics thought
Critics at release were broadly impressed by Nolan's visual and conceptual ambition but split sharply over whether the film's emotional core lands or gets swallowed by its own science — with dialogue, pacing, and thinly drawn characters drawing consistent complaints even from admirers. A decade on, that divide has largely resolved in the film's favor: audience affection has quietly outrun the initial critical hedging, elevating it toward classic status in a way the original reviews did not quite predict.
“brainy, barmy, and beautiful to behold ... a mind-bending opera of space and time with a soul wrapped up in all the science.”
James Dyer·Empire
“This grandly conceived and executed epic tries to give equal weight to intimate human emotions and speculation about the cosmos, with mixed results, but is never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that.”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“a glorious spectacle, but a slight drama, with few characters and too-rare flashes of humour”
Henry Barnes·The Guardian
“[Interstellar] is still an impressive, at times astonishing movie that overwhelmed me to the point where my usual objections to Nolan's work melted away ... At times, the movie's one-stop-shopping storytelling evokes the tough-tender spirit of a John Ford picture ... a movie that would rather try to be eight or nine things than just one.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·RogerEbert.com
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorChristopher Nolan
StarringMatthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck
ComposerHans Zimmer
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