20 Movies That Are Flawed Masterpieces

12. Interstellar (2014)

There is the sense of overreaching to be associated with Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic, Interstellar, which orbits around a plot that sees a team of astronauts heading deep into the far reaches of space in an attempt to re-colonise the population of Earth elsewhere. Much of the film's marketing campaign focused on Nolan's intent to keep the blockbuster grounded in scientific fact - something that continually eludes him across the span of the picture.

And yet Interstellar, for all its very noticeable flaws, could very well be Christopher Nolan's ultimate masterpiece. It is, after all, one of very few Nolan movies which attempts to embrace the heart as well as the mind in what feels like equal terms, thus imbuing the film with an sincere and personal tone that plays to its favour.

If the attempt to gel head and heart clashes somewhat, Interstellar makes up for it in sheer scale and ambition: the visual effects are mind-blowing, whilst the size of the movie is literally out of this world... and then some. A movie like Interstellar - which fumbles and misses its target fairly frequently - would have been great without its flaws, of course, but it's actually a far more compelling - and therefore rewatchable - movie in spite of them.