When watching a horror movie in a theater, there’s always a contest going on between those who are there to genuinely enjoy a good horror film and those who like to pretend that nothing scares them by making fun of the film in their loudest voice. During mediocre films such as this one, it’s the pretentious douchebags that are winning. You’ll be better served staying at home and catching The Babadook instead.

It isn’t quite the finale that you imagined and deserved, but it is still worth the price of an admission ticket, if only to say your final goodbyes to Middle Earth and its citizens …

What the film lacks in ambition and storytelling, it tries to make up with dazzling visuals and special effects. Go for it if you’re up for some biblical mindless fun this weekend.

The decision to convert the already thinly-plotted final book in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy into two movies still remains highly debatable, but Mockingjay Part 1 manages to add more to the arguments in its favor than against it. The film manages to not be the disaster that it could’ve been, instead serving as an effective means of raising the curiosity and excitement levels for the final chapter. Go into the theaters with reasonable expectations, and you’ll come out thinking of the film more as an additional treat than a cash-grab ploy by the producers.

It’s a human drama, it’s an end-of-the-world thriller, it’s a spacetime odyssey, it’s a big-budget action spectacle, and by the end, it’s also a mind-bender. The only thing it’s not is Memento, by far my favorite Nolan film. But considering the bar that the latter film set, that’s not something that I could hold against Interstellar, and neither should you. So, clear 3 hours from your schedule this weekend and be prepared to get your mind blown.

Despite its lengthy running time, you never once look at your watch impatiently, which is a huge achievement for the film. It keeps you emotionally involved with the fate of its characters, keeps you hooked till the very end and gives you food for thought when you leave the theater. Add to that great performances and some badass action sequences involving tanks, and there’s a great time to be had this weekend at a cinema near you.

Ultimately, the film is neither bad enough to give you a migraine, nor is it good enough to warrant a watch. It ends with a setup for a sequel, basically saying “haha, we’ll be back, suckers!”.

Manages to overcome weak writing and every single horror film cliche created by mankind by delivering a few unexpected scares. Go for it, if that’s exactly what you’re looking for.

It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The body count is extremely high (there are more corpses above ground than there are buried below it) and the film is dark and edgy to the point of excluding people. It is, after all, a Shakespearean tragedy. If this doesn’t interest you, you might want to look elsewhere for a “Bang” for your buck. On the other hand, if this is your kind of cinema, you won’t find a better way to spend 3 hours of your life.

The film belongs to Gillian Flynn, David Fincher and Rosamund Pike. It takes an old-fashioned murder-mystery tale and transforms it into a new-age classic that deserves multiple viewings to fully appreciate its brilliance. If there’s only one film that you’ll watch in the next one year, let it be this one. This is one film that shouldn’t be missed at any cost. As if that wasn’t apparent already.