Scott Foundas , chief film critic at '' Variety '' , said that '' Interstellar '' is " as visually and conceptually audacious as anything Nolan has yet done " and considered the film " more personal " than Nolan 's previous films . Claudia Puig of '' USA Today '' praised the visual spectacle and powerful themes , while criticizing the " dull " dialogue and " tedious patches inside the space vessel . " David Stratton of '' At the Movies '' rated the film four-and-a-half stars out of five , commending its ambition , effects , and 70 mm IMAX presentation , though criticizing the sound for " being so loud " as to make some of the dialogue " inaudible . " Conversely , co-host Margaret Pomeranz rated the film three out of five , as she felt the human drama got lost among the film 's scientific concepts . Henry Barnes of '' The Guardian '' scored the film three out of five stars , calling it " a glorious spectacle , but a slight drama , with few characters and too-rare flashes of humour . " Oliver Gettell of the '' Los Angeles Times '' reported that " film critics largely agree that '' Interstellar '' is an entertaining , emotional , and thought-provoking sci-fi saga , even if it can also be clunky and sentimental at times . " James Dyer of '' Empire '' awarded the film a full five stars , describing it as " brainy , barmy , and beautiful to behold ... a mind-bending opera of space and time with a soul wrapped up in all the science . " Dave Calhoun of '' Time Out London '' also granted the film a maximum score of five stars , stating that it is " a bold , beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike . " '' New York Post '' critic Lou Lumenick deemed '' Interstellar '' " a soulful , must-see masterpiece , one of the most exhilarating film experiences so far this century . " Richard Roeper of '' Chicago Sun-Times '' awarded the film a full four stars and wrote , " This is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen — in terms of its visuals , and its overriding message about the powerful forces of the one thing we all know but ca n't measure in scientific terms . Love . " Describing Nolan as a " merchant of awe , " Tim Robey of '' The Telegraph '' thought that '' Interstellar '' was " agonisingly " close to a masterpiece , highlighting the conceptual boldness and " deep-digging intelligence " of the film . Todd McCarthy of '' The Hollywood Reporter '' wrote , " This grandly conceived and executed epic tries to give equal weight to intimate human emotions and speculation about the cosmos , with mixed results , but is never less than engrossing , and sometimes more than that . " In his review for the Associated Press , Jake Coyle praised the film for its " big-screen grandeur , " while finding some of the dialogue " clunky . " He described it further as " an absurd endeavor " and " one of the most sublime movies of the decade . " Scott Mendelson of '' Forbes '' listed '' Interstellar '' as one of the most disappointing films of 2014 , stating that the film " has a lack of flow , loss of momentum following the climax , clumsy sound mixing , " and " thin characters " despite seeing the film twice in order to " give it a second chance . " He wrote that '' Interstellar '' " ends up as a stripped-down and somewhat muted variation on any number of ' go into space to save the world ' movies . " Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars , saying that despite his usual quibbles regarding Nolan 's excessive dialogue and its lack of a sense of composition , " '' Interstellar '' is still an impressive , at times astonishing movie that overwhelmed me to the point where my usual objections to Nolan 's work melted away ... At times , the movie 's one-stop-shopping storytelling evokes the tough-tender spirit of a John Ford picture , ... a movie that would rather try to be eight or nine things than just one . " '' The New York Times '' columnist David Brooks concludes that '' Interstellar '' explores the relationships among " science and faith and science and the humanities " and " illustrates the real symbiosis between these realms . " Wai Chee Dimock , in the '' Los Angeles Review of Books '' , wrote that Nolan 's films are " rotatable at 90 , 180 , and 360 degrees , " and that " although there is considerable magical thinking here , making it almost an anti-sci-fi film , holding out hope that the end of the planet is not the end of everything , it reverses itself , however , when that magic falls short , when the poetic license is naked and plain for all to see . " Author George R. R. Martin called '' Interstellar '' " the most ambitious and challenging science fiction film since Kubrick 's '' 2001 '' . " '' Interstellar '' won the Best Visual Effects award at the 87th Academy Awards , with nominations for Best Original Score , Best Production Design , Best Sound Editing , and Best Sound Mixing
87th Academy Awards
87th Academy Awards
Interstellar (film)