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Jun 7, 2020 · By the time Ad Astra’s ending sees Brad Pitt completing a mission that takes him to the depths of known space, an audience member wouldn’t be faulted for being confused about what just...
Sep 20, 2019 · Earthly disasters possibly caused by a creator who has been absent as the world has lost hope—the religious allegory embedded in “Ad Astra” is crystal clear if you look for it, but never highlighted in a way that takes away from the film’s urgency.
Sep 19, 2019 · In “Ad Astra,” an adventure tale weighed down by the burdens of masculinity, Brad Pitt plays an astronaut in flight.
- James Gray
- Manohla Dargis
- 122 min
Sep 21, 2019 · 4.5. Summary. Ad Astra is as much about the void we create in our personal lives as it’s about space travel; we are more honest with complete strangers than we are with ourselves and the ones we love. Gray’s film is a stealthy, beautiful, evocative take on mental health.
Aug 30, 2019 · Review: Brad Pitt sets out to save the world in ‘Ad Astra,’ a space odyssey that stumbles and soars. Somber, stirring, ridiculous and just shy of sublime, James Gray’s speculative fiction ...
- 2 min
- Justin Chang
Aug 29, 2019 · Film Review: ‘Ad Astra’. Director James Gray proves he can make an epic space adventure, but Brad Pitt's stoic astronaut journeys a long way to face his daddy issues. By Owen Gleiberman.
Ad Astra: Directed by James Gray. With Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland. Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
