Ad Astra
critic Reviews
, 83% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Ad Astra takes a visually thrilling journey through the vast reaches of space while charting an ambitious course for the heart of the bond between parent and child.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWenlei MaNews.com.au
Brad Pitt is nothing short of phenomenal in this remarkable, poignant and visually arresting film from James Gray.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreEsther ZuckermanThrillist
There's larger social commentary here, but the root of the drama is about a man learning to embrace the emotions he's kept buried for years.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreScott MarksSan Diego Reader
For most of its running time, Ad Astra amounts to a rather somber and sterile two-hour orbit.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMelissa Anderson4Columns
The film's Latin title means "to the stars." But the satisfactions of James Gray's project lie in a special branch of astronomy-not the study of planets, but of the supernova at the center of "Ad Astra": Brad Pitt.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChris StuckmannChrisStuckmann.com
It's a very somber and moody film. The atmosphere is achieved beautifully.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCath ClarkeThe Big Issue
McBride is a man living without feeling, and Pitt's performance is beautifully restrained, expressing whole continents of emotion with the furrow of an eyebrow.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlex BentleyCultureMap
Ad Astra is an extraordinary film that contains a vision for the future that's both appealing and cautionary, as well as a technical wizardry that makes our solar system feel reachable and wondrous at the same time.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreFletcher PowellKMUW - Wichita Public Radio
It certainly has something to say. I just wish it hadn't said it so very loudly.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJesse HassengerSportsAlcohol
Given the effectiveness of Gray's more genre-y moments ,his insistence on paring his stories down to a kind of quietly masculine anguish feels perverse.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard CrouseRichard Crouse
Pitt, in a largely non-verbal performance save for copious voiceover, shows his emotions through the cracks, allowing the character to reveal himself in the contemplative but compellingly unsettling way.
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