Interstellar: 10 Superior Philosophical Sci-Fi Films

7. Timecrimes

Interstellar hints at elements of time travel, with Matthew McConaughey€™s Cooper eventually winding up in some fifth dimension beyond human comprehension, where time is visible not as a linear thing but as a physical object happening all at once. That final act twist has inspired plenty of fan theories about how earlier events in the film could have been the work of Cooper, or else some other fifth dimensional beings, messing with the fabric of reality, but it doesn't tie those elements up in a particularly satisfying (or even surprising) way. The eventual "twist" that Cooper was the ghost interacting with daughter Murphy wasn't all that shocking. For a time travel movie that's packed to the gills with insane turns and surprises, you could do worse than Nacho Vigalondo€™s Timecrimes, a Spanish-language thriller whose nested timelines and murder-mystery-throughout-time plot was ripped off by the likes of Convergence and Triangle. There€™s a lot in there about paradoxes, the nature of reality, and time as a flat circle, doomed to repeat. McConaughey knows something about that.