Interstellar

Name: Interstellar
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Released: November 5, 2014
Duration: 169 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy

2014

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 5, 2014 | PG-13

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine

Summary: 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. [Paramount Pictures]

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 169 min

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James Berardinelli

Nov 4, 2014

Interstellar is simultaneously a big-budget science fiction endeavor and a very simple tale of love and sacrifice. It is by turns edgy, breathtaking, hopeful, and heartbreaking. Read full review

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Time Out London Dave Calhoun

Oct 27, 2014

It’s a bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike, and yet it always feels grounded in its own deadly serious reality. Read full review

Joe Williams

Nov 4, 2014

This is epic cinema that begs to be compared to "2001: A Space Odyssey." But unlike Stanley Kubrick's psychedelic joyride, this journey is powered by a human heart. Read full review

Steven Rea

Nov 4, 2014

Einsteinian, Kubrickian, Malickian, Steinbeckian - Interstellar, Christopher Nolan's epically ambitious space opera, is all that. And more. And, alas, less. Read full review

David Denby

Nov 3, 2014

Black holes, relativity, singularity, the fifth dimension! The talk is grand. There’s a problem, however. Delivered in rushed colloquial style, much of this fabulous arcana, central to the plot, is hard to understand, and some of it is hard to hear. The composer Hans Zimmer produces monstrous swells of organ music that occasionally smother the words like lava. The actors seem overmatched by the production. Read full review

Joe McGovern

Oct 31, 2014

Interstellar, his (Nolan) sci-fi spectaculorama helixed around a father-daughter love story, is a gamble like no other in his career. It's his longest film, his headiest, his most personal. And, in its square-peg-in-a-round-wormhole stab at being the weepy motion-picture event of the year, it's also his sappiest. Read full review

The Playlist James Rocchi

Oct 27, 2014

Promising outer-space majesty and deep-thought topics like some modern variation on Stanley Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Interstellar instead plays like a confused mix of daringly unique space-travel footage like you’ve never seen and droningly familiar emotional and plot beats that you’ve seen all too many times before. Read full review

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kyserthehun

Mar 5, 2023

Not many movies move me to tears. In fact, I'm not sure it's ever happened. It's not perfect but I give this movie a 10 because it has my highest recommendation.

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TheBlondeNerd

Dec 7, 2014

Simultaneously mind blowing and beautiful. The story is just fantastic. They make you really care about earth without shpwing any religous or political views. I will say it's a bit a intense for anyone under 11-12. But if you can get a sitter, watch this movie as soon as possible.

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Proteus

Nov 5, 2014

The best thing about Interstellar is that, like Inception, the science and the ideas are as real, as sophisticated, and as advanced, as any ideas out there. If you see a critic or somebody saying this is convoluted or overly complex that says more about their lack of understanding than aboutThe best thing about Interstellar is that, like Inception, the science and the ideas are as real, as sophisticated, and as advanced, as any ideas out there. If you see a critic or somebody saying this is convoluted or overly complex that says more about their lack of understanding than about the movie. We should be thrilled Nolan is thinking about and making movies about these things. Bravo.… Expand

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Allthat

Nov 8, 2014

If you thought that Inception was confusing, wait till you watch this **** space adventure by Christopher Nolan. Apart from its confusing story line, you'll get to see space like never before. A really good movie!

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Jacob

Nov 9, 2014

Yes Interstellar is a stellar movie. Like Inception the film takes cool scientific concept and does some interesting things with it. The story is engaging and suspenseful even if you can predict it. The film is long but it allows you to feel the length of the journey and let the charactersYes Interstellar is a stellar movie. Like Inception the film takes cool scientific concept and does some interesting things with it. The story is engaging and suspenseful even if you can predict it. The film is long but it allows you to feel the length of the journey and let the characters breath. The stand out is the presentation with the film being beautiful to look at and is a must see on the big screen and/or IMAX (definitely IMAX!). Its not as good as The Dark Knight or Inception. The film is a little too long (dragging a lot in the first hour), the ending reveal is a little predictable, and the film doesn’t make you think as much as the others. Honestly, though its still a really good film in what has been for Nolan a great track record. See this movie while its in theaters as this is one you don’t want to miss. Although turn up your hearing aids for the first hour or so because Matthew’s character has quieter whispers than Batman in the Dark Knight films.… Expand

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quincytheodore

Nov 12, 2014

It may not be as mindblowing as Inception, but it paints a clear picture of unworldly desolate journey in very personal level. Aside from the heavy emphasis of space flight, "Human is explorer" as the movie aptly described, the best part of the movie is relationship between humansIt may not be as mindblowing as Inception, but it paints a clear picture of unworldly desolate journey in very personal level. Aside from the heavy emphasis of space flight, "Human is explorer" as the movie aptly described, the best part of the movie is relationship between humans themselves, mainly between Cooper and Murph. Visual is pleasant, the science is sound and atmosphere is grimly right, although the pace can be pretty slow at times. The movie serves as inspiration and education purpose, captivating audience with not just boring lecture but also with good simulation on how lives can be affected by the prospect of unforeseeable future.

Story is very heavy with scientific elements, there is much information to absorb and it could be overwhelming for those who aren't accustomed to sci-fi genre. To its credit, the movie tries to explain many complicated aspects as brief and as clear as possible, it can't be faulted with lack of research. The first act does take some time to roll, but for a good reason. Matthew McConaughey brings top notch acting in recent years, but perhaps his best one is this father-daughter relationship with Murph (Jessica Chastain). It's very believable, dynamic, occasionally amusing and thoroughly emotional. Jessica Chastain pulls off a great performance, better than her older counterparts.

Michael Caine, an old time accomplish to Nolan, as Depp to Burton, is fantastic as usual. There's so much depth to his character, much thanks to his natural parental charisma. Anne Hathaway plays as Brand, another astronaut with strong conviction but slight self-doubt. Every character here is flawed, there's no one with hero mentality, and it's more authentic to see them trying to solve their issues with such imperfection. Hathaway is more of a comrade than love interest, someone who shares the unique same fate, her tight suit will be missed though.

Writing is quite brilliant, very solid and humorous when needs be. It balances the complex stuff with simpler tone to ensure audience can still relate. Props to writers for making the robotic characters very lively even as they lumber around in metal case. Visual is littered with the gray tone of Nolan. This fits the estranged worlds and empty space, it's less blockbuster than previous galactic voyage of Gravity, but appealing on its own right. Music from Hans Zimmer is undoubtedly excellent, he hits the right tune and delivers some creeping moments of solitude. The overall sound effect is also good, transitioning between vacuum space and mechanic growl perfectly. The movie's production level is sky high.

Interstellar is admittedly a bit slow at times, it's inspirational but not as cinematically engaging and entertaining as Nolan's previous works. It manages to create a lonely perspective, a daunting self-reflective insight of human significant, or insignificant in cosmos time, but the best part about the movie is the bonds, might it be parental, platonic or romantic, or even robotic. In the end the star is the humans that make the equation more meaningful.… Expand

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Barny

Mar 26, 2021

How to make a non-sense movie, step 1: the first premise of your movie is that people only grow corn in a world dried up with frequent dust storms... step 2: solar cells powering up an entire barn, and hacking wirelessly a military drone which stayed 10 years in the air to fly it with aHow to make a non-sense movie, step 1: the first premise of your movie is that people only grow corn in a world dried up with frequent dust storms... step 2: solar cells powering up an entire barn, and hacking wirelessly a military drone which stayed 10 years in the air to fly it with a track pad... going through the rest of the movie without cringing is an exercise in self inflicted pain given the frequency of plot-holes and non-sense. I truly think those who liked this movie don't really understand that sci-fi doesn't mean fantasy.… Expand

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