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By Daniel Green (105) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 Sep 2019

Ad Astra provides the genuine thematic depth and real-world grounding so often missing from films of its ilk…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Sep 2019

The lesson of the film is a straightforward one—that in the future, people will still need to rely on each other—but Ad Astra communicates…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Sep 2019

The new film is easily’s Gray’s most ambitious, bare-your-soul work, and one of the finest films of the year, too…

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By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2019

In a future where the plagues of civilization have only evolved into new shapes and sizes, it asks, in a roundabout way, if there’s anything…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Sep 2019

Director James Gray’s style harks back to classic space movies, such as “Alien” and “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” that played…

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By Clark Collis (94) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Sep 2019

The result is a genuine space epic which also succeeds in being a very personal film, thanks in large part to Pitt’s performance…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for The Verge (432) on 18 Sep 2019

Ad Astra is poised to kick-start the most passionate style-vs.-substance debate cinephiles have had in years…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 18 Sep 2019

While Gray may have told basically this same story before, Ad Astra’s cosmic setting makes it even more poignant, because it puts into such…

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By Garrett Mitchell (27) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 18 Sep 2019

Ad Astra is one giant leap for telling intimate stories on a grand scale…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 18 Sep 2019

An odd combination of space adventure, psychological thriller and moody tone poem, it stops just short of dazzlement; instead Ad Astra, like…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Sep 2019

It’s a probing, searching movie by one of the medium’s best American directors whose reach, like his protagonist’s, exceeds his grasp…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Sep 2019

At heart, though, odd as it sounds, Gray has created a pocket-sized version of “Apocalypse Now.” Ad Astra bends the Francis Ford Coppola…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 17 Sep 2019

So which side of the movie finally prevails — the lackluster conventionality of its text or the breathtaking singularity of its visuals and…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Sep 2019

Ad Astra is moody, meditative, and slow (though not the knife fight or rover demolition derby)…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 17 Sep 2019

Gray’s filmmaking is tremendously exciting…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 17 Sep 2019

Pitt is undoubtedly luminous as the brightest star of Ad Astra, an engaging and even hopeful exploration about the consistency of human feelings,…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 16 Sep 2019

Ad Astra is Gray’s most formidable paradox to date, liable to leave you awed, confused, and sad…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 13 Sep 2019

Ad Astra (Latin for “To the Stars”) has dazzling eye candy and reasonable extrapolations of what near future space colonization might look…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Sep 2019

With a haunting Brad Pitt performance at the center of an existentially arresting personal journey, Ad Astra feels like the boldest, most considered…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Aug 2019

You leave Ad Astra feeling dazzled and befuddled, moved and frustrated, and perhaps wishing that its maker had cast his own preoccupations…

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