Intersteller

— “Intersteller” is lucky to have time and space on its side since it’s really carrying multiple themes and juggling multiple storylines and dimensions to look at love, family, survival, environmental issues, and passive acceptance vs active discovery, on earth and in space. There’s something familiar about many scenes, almost but not quite an homage to things we’ve seen before, but the memories it brings toward the surface work well with the film. Sometimes we’re all too conscious that it’s playing with our heartstrings, but it seems to work and we don’t mind. The film itself is beautiful, perhaps helped even more because it avoids total dependence on CGI. Christopher Nolan has done an amazing job and the three hours flew by. Matthew McConaughey is perfect in the film, ably supported by Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. This is a very good film and one that’s worth seeing in a theater.

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[2014. 169 min. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain.]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11207268/Interstellar-review-a-feast-of-extraordinary-ideas.html