Cinematic experience of the year

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2014)

There is about one movie per year that has me gripping my seat out of concern that I will fall into the cinema screen like it was a black hole. For 2014, it's Interstellar.
Interstellar left me wanting more after 3 hours. It overwhelmed my emotions and perception from beginning to end. It is a jaw-dropping (literally) visual and dramatic masterpiece. The sound side is also great, and goes from silent like the void to violent like the surface of the sun. EXPERIENCE it in a good cinema!
When I award a movie a perfect score, it's because the script and acting and visuals flow together to create a higher unity that outshines the distractions. Distractions from a sci-fi drama like this are inaccurate or clichÃ© physics, illogical character actions and dialogue. By those criteria, I judge the movie.
The movie expertly conveys the range of feelings associated with being separated from your loved ones by vast amounts of time and space. As with most sci-fi drama though, you'll have to be ignorant or willfully ignorant of science and logic to enjoy it. Drama 1st, physics 2nd.
There are some hitches in the script. When the spaceship approaches the wormhole, a crew member informs the pilot that the wormhole is spherical. I don't know if wormholes are hypothesized to be spherical, but the right time for sharing such information with the pilot is not just before entering the wormhole, right? It's the right time for informing the audience, but do we appreciate being reminded like this that we are watching a movie? I certainly do not. However, the characters and the acting are so strong that I could easily look past the few idiotic remarks. I cared for all the characters. I cared for the robots too. I even cared for the "bad" guys.
If you liked Sunshine (2007), you will love this.