Mark Kermode's written review for The Guardian. He gave it 4/5.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/no ... e-delivers
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/no ... e-delivers
The title of Christopher Nolan’s behemoth space epic says it all – a grandiloquent declaration of scale that smacks simultaneously of ambition and hubris – like Titanic, both the ship and the film. The good news is that this flawed but frequently awe-inspiring movie about wormholes and black holes does not implode into a dark star of disappointment; if it’s spectacle you want, then Interstellar delivers, particularly when viewed in Nolan’s preferred 70mm Imax format.
Yet while the film’s massive gravitational pull guarantees astronomical box-office returns, fans of Nolan’s finest works (Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Inception) will long for more narrative rigour as raw science, rich sentimentality and rank silliness battle for the heart and soul of this very personal project. As a diehard Nolanoid, I found myself largely enthralled, often amazed and occasionally aghast.