It’s easy, in hindsight, to look at Interstellar as one of Christopher Nolan’s best movies, if not his most emotional film. It’s one of his works people bring up now when they talk about how deeply his flicks can hit, the one that leaves audiences quietly wrecked by the end credits. But that wasn’t exactly the narrative when it first came out. Apparently, there was a brutal critique Nolan received “anonymously’ when the film hit theaters back in 2014.
During a recent Q&A, shared via the Nolan Archives YouTube channel and held at AMC Universal CityWalk as part of a “Timothée Chalamet Live” retrospective presented by Cinematheque screening, Nolan reflected on the Interstellar's original reception. And buried in that conversation is one of the more blunt critiques he’s ever gotten. He explained:
