The most obviously science fiction-y of Nolan’s many sci-fi films, this sees a team head out among the stars in search of a new home for humanity as Earth dies behind them.
The most obviously science fiction-y of Nolan’s many sci-fi films, this sees a team head out among the stars in search of a new home for humanity as Earth dies behind them. But extinction is mere context to a family drama about intergenerational trauma, caused by the unfortunate time dilation of a ( stunningly realised and scientifically significant) black hole. Matthew McConaughey is the father trying to get back to his kids but separated by the impossible reach of time itself; Jessica Chastain the abandoned daughter who can save the world because of his love. This once again reckons with Nolan’s obsession with time, but in a way that takes in astrophysics, speculative science and a love letter from a father to his kids.