Interstellar

Interstellar is a film whose ideas are almost as grand as its scale, perhaps even grander. Whether dealing with questions of love, loss, sacrifice, the complexities of time or the human condition, the film manages to provide audiences with enough food for thought to keep things interesting for its nearly 3hr running time. To those expecting a sweaty palm experience like Gravity, you'll be disappointed, for Nolan just doesn't make movies that way. The space travel sequences, while thrilling and immense (Imax only baby) are not the raison d'être of this film. It is the human relationships and the existential questions about how time and space work that represent the heart and soul of Interstellar. It tends toward the overly sentimental more often than not and for a 3hr movie does feel surprisingly rushed, yet for a film with such lofty ambition those are minor concerns. Matthew McConaughey, continuing his string of terrific work, leads a great cast here, including one hell of a star cameo for added fun. A grandiose space drama spanning galaxies that nevertheless keeps it's metaphorical feet on the ground so as to deal with genuine human emotion. The one thing made abundantly clear after watching Interstellar, boy does Christopher Nolan know how to make movies.