Ad Astra

The actor blasts off in search of long-lost pops Tommy Lee Jones in James Gray’s intergalactically po-faced take on Apocalypse Now

2046d ago

The actor blasts off in search of long-lost pops Tommy Lee Jones in James Gray’s intergalactically po-faced take on Apocalypse Now

2046d ago

The canniness of Gray’s procedure is matched by the boldness, even the recklessness, of the extremes to which he pushes it—along with his characters, his story, his emotions, and his techniques. The result is to turn Ad Astra into an instant classic of intimate cinema—one that requires massive machinery and complex methods to create a cinematic simplicity that, for all the greatness of his earlier films, had eluded him until now.

2046d ago

"Ad Astra" is deeply moving with lines and ideas in its final scenes that worked on my emotions in ways I wasn’t at all expecting. Be patient with it. Invest in it. The destination is worth the journey.

2046d ago

"Ad Astra" is deeply moving with lines and ideas in its final scenes that worked on my emotions in ways I wasn’t at all expecting. Be patient with it. Invest in it. The destination is worth the journey.

2046d ago

The canniness of Gray’s procedure is matched by the boldness, even the recklessness, of the extremes to which he pushes it—along with his characters, his story, his emotions, and his techniques. The result is to turn Ad Astra into an instant classic of intimate cinema—one that requires massive machinery and complex methods to create a cinematic simplicity that, for all the greatness of his earlier films, had eluded him until now.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt's star quality shines in an existential sci-fi spectacular

2046d ago

Brad Pitt's star quality shines in an existential sci-fi spectacular

2046d ago

The actor blasts off in search of long-lost pops Tommy Lee Jones in James Gray’s intergalactically po-faced take on Apocalypse Now

2046d ago

Brad Pitt's star quality shines in an existential sci-fi spectacular

2046d ago

"Ad Astra" is deeply moving with lines and ideas in its final scenes that worked on my emotions in ways I wasn’t at all expecting. Be patient with it. Invest in it. The destination is worth the journey.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt's star quality shines in an existential sci-fi spectacular

2046d ago

The canniness of Gray’s procedure is matched by the boldness, even the recklessness, of the extremes to which he pushes it—along with his characters, his story, his emotions, and his techniques. The result is to turn Ad Astra into an instant classic of intimate cinema—one that requires massive machinery and complex methods to create a cinematic simplicity that, for all the greatness of his earlier films, had eluded him until now.

2046d ago

Balancing humanist optimism with a profoundly downcast view of our collective destiny, the film is inextricably of its moment.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut whose father disappeared on a mission to contact extraterrestrial life in James Gray’s sci-fi look at the loneliness and isolation of space.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut whose father disappeared on a mission to contact extraterrestrial life in James Gray’s sci-fi look at the loneliness and isolation of space.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut whose father disappeared on a mission to contact extraterrestrial life in James Gray’s sci-fi look at the loneliness and isolation of space.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt journeys into inner and outer space in James Gray’s sci-fi stunner Ad Astra

2046d ago

Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways

2046d ago

Brad Pitt journeys into inner and outer space in James Gray’s sci-fi stunner Ad Astra

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut whose father disappeared on a mission to contact extraterrestrial life in James Gray’s sci-fi look at the loneliness and isolation of space.

2046d ago

Balancing humanist optimism with a profoundly downcast view of our collective destiny, the film is inextricably of its moment.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt journeys into inner and outer space in James Gray’s sci-fi stunner Ad Astra

2046d ago

Balancing humanist optimism with a profoundly downcast view of our collective destiny, the film is inextricably of its moment.

2046d ago

Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways

2046d ago

Brad Pitt journeys into inner and outer space in James Gray’s sci-fi stunner Ad Astra

2046d ago

Balancing humanist optimism with a profoundly downcast view of our collective destiny, the film is inextricably of its moment.

2046d ago

Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways

2046d ago

Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways

2046d ago

When somebody asks Brad Pitt what he did this summer, here’s how he should respond: “Resuscitated my acting career!”

2046d ago

When somebody asks Brad Pitt what he did this summer, here’s how he should respond: “Resuscitated my acting career!”

2046d ago

When somebody asks Brad Pitt what he did this summer, here’s how he should respond: “Resuscitated my acting career!”

2046d ago

When somebody asks Brad Pitt what he did this summer, here’s how he should respond: “Resuscitated my acting career!”

2046d ago

Brad Pitt lifts off as an astronaut in search of his father in Ad Astra

2046d ago

Brad Pitt lifts off as an astronaut in search of his father in Ad Astra

2046d ago

The Latin phrase “Ad Astra,” translates in English, as “through hardships to the stars,” and it’s through this archetypal essence, without struggle, there is no wonder and reward, that Gray’s moving drama ultimately finds great hope and humanity on the far edges of space.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt lifts off as an astronaut in search of his father in Ad Astra

2046d ago

The Latin phrase “Ad Astra,” translates in English, as “through hardships to the stars,” and it’s through this archetypal essence, without struggle, there is no wonder and reward, that Gray’s moving drama ultimately finds great hope and humanity on the far edges of space.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt lifts off as an astronaut in search of his father in Ad Astra

2046d ago

The Latin phrase “Ad Astra,” translates in English, as “through hardships to the stars,” and it’s through this archetypal essence, without struggle, there is no wonder and reward, that Gray’s moving drama ultimately finds great hope and humanity on the far edges of space.

2046d ago

The Latin phrase “Ad Astra,” translates in English, as “through hardships to the stars,” and it’s through this archetypal essence, without struggle, there is no wonder and reward, that Gray’s moving drama ultimately finds great hope and humanity on the far edges of space.

2046d ago

The latest from the director James Gray centers on an astronaut whose mission into deep space becomes a voyage of self-discovery.

2046d ago

The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie

2046d ago

The latest from the director James Gray centers on an astronaut whose mission into deep space becomes a voyage of self-discovery.

2046d ago

The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie

2046d ago

Brad Pitt Can Handle Outer Space But Not His Own Feelings in the Gorgeous Ad Astra

2046d ago

The near future. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) has lived in the shadow of his heroic father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mission to find artificial intelligence in the universe. When electrical surges from space begin to hit the Earth, Roy must travel across the solar system to find his father, the origin of the surge — and maybe more.

2046d ago

The near future. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) has lived in the shadow of his heroic father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mission to find artificial intelligence in the universe. When electrical surges from space begin to hit the Earth, Roy must travel across the solar system to find his father, the origin of the surge — and maybe more.

2046d ago

With echoes of Apocalypse Now and 2001, James Gray’s spectacular epic dispatches Pitt on an interplanetary mission to find his missing father

2046d ago

The near future. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) has lived in the shadow of his heroic father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mission to find artificial intelligence in the universe. When electrical surges from space begin to hit the Earth, Roy must travel across the solar system to find his father, the origin of the surge — and maybe more.

2046d ago

The latest from the director James Gray centers on an astronaut whose mission into deep space becomes a voyage of self-discovery.

2046d ago

The star and writer-director James Gray concoct a cerebral sci-fi film about fathers and sons that’s absolutely enthralling

2046d ago

Brad Pitt Can Handle Outer Space But Not His Own Feelings in the Gorgeous Ad Astra

2046d ago

Brad Pitt Can Handle Outer Space But Not His Own Feelings in the Gorgeous Ad Astra

2046d ago

The star and writer-director James Gray concoct a cerebral sci-fi film about fathers and sons that’s absolutely enthralling

2046d ago

In a mesmerizing, minimalist performance, Pitt forms the gravitational center of a film that takes its place in the firmament of science fiction films by fearlessly quoting classics of the genre (as well as those outside it). The net effect is that Ad Astra feels both familiar and confidently of itself, all the more boldly affecting by being unafraid to acknowledge the forebears it explicitly invokes.

2046d ago

The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie

2046d ago

The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie

2046d ago

In a mesmerizing, minimalist performance, Pitt forms the gravitational center of a film that takes its place in the firmament of science fiction films by fearlessly quoting classics of the genre (as well as those outside it). The net effect is that Ad Astra feels both familiar and confidently of itself, all the more boldly affecting by being unafraid to acknowledge the forebears it explicitly invokes.

2046d ago

In a mesmerizing, minimalist performance, Pitt forms the gravitational center of a film that takes its place in the firmament of science fiction films by fearlessly quoting classics of the genre (as well as those outside it). The net effect is that Ad Astra feels both familiar and confidently of itself, all the more boldly affecting by being unafraid to acknowledge the forebears it explicitly invokes.

2046d ago

With echoes of Apocalypse Now and 2001, James Gray’s spectacular epic dispatches Pitt on an interplanetary mission to find his missing father

2046d ago

With echoes of Apocalypse Now and 2001, James Gray’s spectacular epic dispatches Pitt on an interplanetary mission to find his missing father

2046d ago

The near future. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) has lived in the shadow of his heroic father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mission to find artificial intelligence in the universe. When electrical surges from space begin to hit the Earth, Roy must travel across the solar system to find his father, the origin of the surge — and maybe more.

2046d ago

The star and writer-director James Gray concoct a cerebral sci-fi film about fathers and sons that’s absolutely enthralling

2046d ago

The latest from the director James Gray centers on an astronaut whose mission into deep space becomes a voyage of self-discovery.

2046d ago

With echoes of Apocalypse Now and 2001, James Gray’s spectacular epic dispatches Pitt on an interplanetary mission to find his missing father

2046d ago

Brad Pitt Can Handle Outer Space But Not His Own Feelings in the Gorgeous Ad Astra

2046d ago

In a mesmerizing, minimalist performance, Pitt forms the gravitational center of a film that takes its place in the firmament of science fiction films by fearlessly quoting classics of the genre (as well as those outside it). The net effect is that Ad Astra feels both familiar and confidently of itself, all the more boldly affecting by being unafraid to acknowledge the forebears it explicitly invokes.

2046d ago

The star and writer-director James Gray concoct a cerebral sci-fi film about fathers and sons that’s absolutely enthralling

2046d ago

Yes, Ad Astra is finally with us. It’s huge. It’s personal. It’s sometimes stunning. And it is, ultimately, just satisfactory.

2046d ago

Yes, Ad Astra is finally with us. It’s huge. It’s personal. It’s sometimes stunning. And it is, ultimately, just satisfactory.

2046d ago

Yes, Ad Astra is finally with us. It’s huge. It’s personal. It’s sometimes stunning. And it is, ultimately, just satisfactory.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt rockets to greatness in spiffy space adventure 'Ad Astra'

2046d ago

Brad Pitt rockets to greatness in spiffy space adventure 'Ad Astra'

2046d ago

Brad Pitt rockets to greatness in spiffy space adventure 'Ad Astra'

2046d ago

Brad Pitt rockets to greatness in spiffy space adventure 'Ad Astra'

2046d ago

Yes, Ad Astra is finally with us. It’s huge. It’s personal. It’s sometimes stunning. And it is, ultimately, just satisfactory.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt toplines director James Gray's first foray into science fiction, playing an astronaut who travels to the far reaches of the solar system in search of his long-lost father.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt toplines director James Gray's first foray into science fiction, playing an astronaut who travels to the far reaches of the solar system in search of his long-lost father.

2046d ago

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.

2046d ago

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.

2046d ago

The director James Gray’s most formidable paradox to date is a work of calculated grandeur and beauty. But there’s something small at the movie’s core.

2046d ago

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.

2046d ago

The director James Gray’s most formidable paradox to date is a work of calculated grandeur and beauty. But there’s something small at the movie’s core.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt toplines director James Gray's first foray into science fiction, playing an astronaut who travels to the far reaches of the solar system in search of his long-lost father.

2046d ago

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.

2046d ago

The director James Gray’s most formidable paradox to date is a work of calculated grandeur and beauty. But there’s something small at the movie’s core.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt toplines director James Gray's first foray into science fiction, playing an astronaut who travels to the far reaches of the solar system in search of his long-lost father.

2046d ago

The director James Gray’s most formidable paradox to date is a work of calculated grandeur and beauty. But there’s something small at the movie’s core.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars in James Gray's slow and somber sci-fi spectacle.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars in James Gray's slow and somber sci-fi spectacle.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars in James Gray's slow and somber sci-fi spectacle.

2046d ago

Brad Pitt stars in James Gray's slow and somber sci-fi spectacle.

2046d ago

At heart, though, odd as it sounds, Gray has created a pocket-sized version of “Apocalypse Now.” Ad Astra bends the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam-era extravagance, about the rogue commander, Kurtz, and the errand boy, Willard, into its own thing. Like Coppola’s film, and the Joseph Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness," the new film examines the limits of colonialist hubris. It’s also, and primarily, a father/son parable of betrayal, confrontation and forgiveness.

2046d ago

At heart, though, odd as it sounds, Gray has created a pocket-sized version of “Apocalypse Now.” Ad Astra bends the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam-era extravagance, about the rogue commander, Kurtz, and the errand boy, Willard, into its own thing. Like Coppola’s film, and the Joseph Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness," the new film examines the limits of colonialist hubris. It’s also, and primarily, a father/son parable of betrayal, confrontation and forgiveness.

2046d ago

At heart, though, odd as it sounds, Gray has created a pocket-sized version of “Apocalypse Now.” Ad Astra bends the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam-era extravagance, about the rogue commander, Kurtz, and the errand boy, Willard, into its own thing. Like Coppola’s film, and the Joseph Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness," the new film examines the limits of colonialist hubris. It’s also, and primarily, a father/son parable of betrayal, confrontation and forgiveness.

2046d ago

At heart, though, odd as it sounds, Gray has created a pocket-sized version of “Apocalypse Now.” Ad Astra bends the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam-era extravagance, about the rogue commander, Kurtz, and the errand boy, Willard, into its own thing. Like Coppola’s film, and the Joseph Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness," the new film examines the limits of colonialist hubris. It’s also, and primarily, a father/son parable of betrayal, confrontation and forgiveness.

2046d ago