Interstellar (2014)
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Critics Consensus: Interstellar represents more of the thrilling, thought-provoking, and visually resplendent filmmaking moviegoers have come to expect from writer-director Christopher Nolan, even if its intellectual reach somewhat exceeds its grasp.
Critics Consensus: Interstellar represents more of the thrilling, thought-provoking, and visually resplendent filmmaking moviegoers have come to expect from writer-director Christopher Nolan, even if its intellectual reach somewhat exceeds its grasp.
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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. (C) Paramount
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for some intense perilous action and brief strong language)
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure , Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Directed By:
- Christopher Nolan
- Written By:
- Christopher Nolan , Jonathan Nolan
- In Theaters:
- Nov 7, 2014 Wide
- On DVD:
- Mar 30, 2015
- US Box Office:
- $186.4M
- Runtime:
Cast
as Cooper
as Brand
as Murph
as Prof. Brand
as Tom
as Getty
as TARS
as Murph (older)
as Doyle
as Murph (10 yrs.)
as Dr. Mann
as Tom (15 yrs.)
as Donald
as Romilly
as CASE
as Administrator
as Ms. Hanley
as Lois
as School Principal
as Williams
as Doctor
as Nurse Practitioner
as Coop
as NASA Inspector
as Scientist
as Boots
as Jenkins
as Construction Boss
as Smith
as NASA Scientist
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All Critics (282) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (203) | Rotten (79)
Interstellar is a grand gesture in every way. And yet, it's Nolan's most humane film to date.
For all the themes intended to rocket our minds into a futuristic escape plan, it's too overloaded with hopelessness and bent logic to get off the ground.
Nolan is one of the few directors with the ambition to tackle big topics -- like the fate of humanity or our need to explore -- and the artistic clout to bring that vision to a mass audience.
There are many words to describe Interstellar. Entertainment isn't one of them.
This sort of hammering, a determination that you'll "get it", distracts from Interstellar's effort to transport.
Though the family ties don't quite hold, Interstellar gives us an epic of space travel as desperate necessity, at a time when its science fiction hits perilously close to home.
You'll feel the cold on the Hoth-like ice planet. It's pure movie magic -- impressive and astonishing and deserving of all the out-of-this-world hyperbole. Too bad the rest of it is mostly empty space.
While it definitely feels as though Nolan over-reached and under-edited, there's enough eye candy and emotion to keep you from being bored.
This is a Nolan film, so nothing is simple -- or quick to the point. At nearly three hours, the film piles on the twists, wonky physics, heartfelt speeches and pseudoscience.
Watching Nolan's latest attempt to create something artistic, intelligent and entertaining on such a massive scale, I couldn't help but think that with "Interstellar," he's outsmarted himself.
"Interstellar" is flawed, but has the kind of scope that makes going to movies fun.
I urge you to stop seeking out information on this film, and instead wait until this Thursday and see it, on the biggest screen within reach. You won't be sorry.
McConaughey and his co-stars do a terrific job of underplaying the tech-nobabble and selling their individual moments... and Nolan's trademark big-picture confidence propels Interstellar through its near-three-hour running time with breathless style.
You go in to Interstellar hoping to be mind-blown, thrilled, and smartened-up. Although it's beautifully made, brainy and sometimes insanely gorgeous, you may find yourself wondering what the big whoop was all about.
As undeniably ambitious and technically accomplished as it is bloated, ponderous and ludicrous, Interstellar finds Christopher Nolan struggling in the shadow of Kubrick, Malick and other visionary filmic philosophers.
It's an enthralling, provocative, ambitious film.
Interstellar's themes are universal and some of the dialogue really resonates too.
I learnt a lot about wormholes and, while I can be entranced by the idea of saving the human race, I want a little bit of drama to go with it.
This is not only a tremendously exciting space adventure... It's also a rich and thoughtful meditation on time and space and gravity.
"Interstellar" is a grand undertaking, but in shooting for the stars, it loses its footing. It goes to infinity and beyond, when infinity would have been plenty.
Audience Reviews for Interstellar
Both plot and science too convoluted (atrocious plausibility grievances not included since Nolan thankfully unabashedly threw that goal out of the window very early on in the story), dialogue and character direction too awkward, and cinematography too frustratingly static and short-sighted. There were a few moments of great other-worldly wonder, but Interstellar tried to be too many movies, failing in one way or another at each of them. And I sure hope that I never again have to hear an astronaut feel the need explain to another astronaut that black holes are so dense that even light can't escape. After this and "Gravity," maybe big-budget (mass-market) astronomy sci-fi is just destined not to sit well with me.
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No GG nomination for the McConaissance?!?! Bullshit! I was so sure he could be a back-to-back Oscar winner! That scene of him balls-out bawling while watching backlogs of Tom's video messages is just so...I don't even know! Our facial expressions are so heavily influenced by how we THINK we should look based on emotional representations in visual media. Is this how people look when they're experiencing emotions? Even if not, I just wanna look like Matthew McConaughey all the time!
"Interstellar" is the only Christopher Nolan movie I've liked since "Memento." This sprawling space and time saga is set in the nearly apocalyptic future where food is scarce, farming is an essential though still blue-collar career, NASA has become SNASA (Secret NASA), and the smoonlanding (secret moonlanding) is thought to have been faked. Cooper is an aeronautical pilot tapped for a dangerous mission of indefinite duration to find new life-sustaining planets. His young daughter never quite forgives him for leaving, and his quest is one of survival and return.
I especially love the scene of Coop driving away in a cloud of dust, underscored by the space shuttle countdown. Mackenzie Foy as young Murph is sweet and teary, and Jessica Chastain deftly takes her into adulthood as a tough yet tender space crusader. Surprise Matt Damon (the best kind of Matt Damon) is tender and menacing as the "destroyer of worlds" - a recurring motif that I enjoy in Nolan's work.
The movie has its nonsensical flaws, of course. Wes Bentley's character is killed off way to quickly and anticlimactically because emotional plot point. The one equation to save humanity is a mere deus ex machina McGuffin. It's not explained in any plausible, scientific manner; we just have to roll with it. And dat Anne Hathaway doe. So melt-your-face-off-brilliant in "Les Miserables," yet so full of nothing in this. Dr. Brand has gumption written into her, but Hathaway can't infuse enough life into a character with no compelling purpose or motivation beyond blah-blah-save-the-human-race-blah-blah-love-conquers-all.
Super Reviewer
An ambitious (albeit, maybe TOO ambitious) space adventure that provides a riveting balance of thrills, visual spectacle, top-notch acting, and thought-provoking ideas. Christopher Nolan once again provides another blockbuster that manages to entertain the brain (it's nice to see a mainstream Hollywood sci-fi flick with actual SCIENCE in it) as well as the eyes. Plus, you gotta love that masterful Hans Zimmer score.
MoreSuper Reviewer
Nolan's vision is a sight to behold but "Interstellar" plots its way into a black hole it doesn't get itself out of.
"Interstellar" manages to be captivating throughout most of its run but struggles to effectively pay off its immense potential. But you have to applaud its conceptual ambition.
Super Reviewer
Interstellar Quotes
- Cooper:
- Mankind was born on Earth ... it was never meant to die here.
- Cooper:
- Come on Tars!
- Prof. Brand:
- We need the bravest humans to find us a new home.
- Cooper:
- But the nearest star is over a thousand years away.
- Doyle:
- Hence the bravery.
- Doyle:
- Potentially habitable worlds right within our reach.
- Brand:
- Could save us from extinction.
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