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Start with Christopher Nolan. Add a (handsome!) splash of Matthew McConaughey. Mix in some Anne Hathaway and some Jessica Chastain and what do you get?

One of the most anticipated movies of 2014.

But does Interstellar live up to the hype? To the awesomeness teased in the Interstellar trailer?

Check out what many critics are saying below and decide if Interstellar is worth your time and money this weekend…

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Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. – Joe Morgenstern

What the neg-heads are missing about Interstellar is how enthralling it is, how gracefully it blends the cosmic and the intimate, how deftly Nolan explores the infinite in the smallest human details. – Peter Travers

 

By the closing credits, it seems possible that Nolan himself hails from another planet, and while he has tried diligently to show humanity in a flattering light, he lacks enough inside information to get it right. – Liam Lacey

Much as Nolan’s characters often fail to reconcile their grandest desires, so, too, does Interstellar fall short, particularly in its trying-to-have-it-all finale. But, damn, if we shouldn’t applaud Nolan for aiming big. – Jeff Meyers 

Interstellar is beautiful, dazzling and astonishingly loud, but, alas, it is remains something of a mess at the level of the script. – Donald Clarke

A science-fiction (heavy on science) adventure steeped in Einstein’s theory of relativity that is equal parts enigmatic, exhilarating, elaborate and emotionally wrenching. – Jon Niccum

Boldly swinging for the rafters and face-planting half the time, [Nolan is] uncharacteristically willing to embarrass himself here. There’s a lot to admire in that. – Kimberley Jones

Mostly, Interstellar is super-dull and super-annoying and super-dumb because it posits itself as a film of many big ideas when it doesn’t even possess a single decent one. – Deborah Ross