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- 2019
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 3 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 3 m
Summary Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Written By: Ethan Gross
- 2019
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 3 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 3 m
Ad Astra
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6.2
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Summary Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Written By: Ethan Gross
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 Critic Reviews
80
89% Positive
50 Reviews
50 Reviews
11% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 Critic Reviews
80
89% Positive
50 Reviews
50 Reviews
11% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is rare, nuanced storytelling, anchored by one of Brad Pitt’s career-best performances and remarkable technical elements on every level. It’s a special film.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 923 User Ratings
6.2
56% Positive
515 Ratings
515 Ratings
23% Mixed
216 Ratings
216 Ratings
21% Negative
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 923 User Ratings
6.2
56% Positive
515 Ratings
515 Ratings
23% Mixed
216 Ratings
216 Ratings
21% Negative
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
Not that anyone actually reads unbiased user reviews, but seeing Brad Pitts acting skills in this syfy movie was pretty damn good if not one of his top 5 movies. If anything, he nailed it in terms of physical facial expressions, body behavior and voice tone levels to reflect the realism of his character. Also, seeing Donald Sutherland/Tommy Lee Jones in the same movie like Space Cowboys was pretty damn cool and meshed well.
I hope we get to see more of these talented actors teaming up in again
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Given the nature of director/co-writer James Gray’s admirably daring, bold and ambitious, sure-to-be-polarizing, flat-out weird, crazy fever-dream space opera, it’s only fitting for the title to be so obscure and challenging.
Gray’s filmmaking is tremendously exciting.
It’s a probing, searching movie by one of the medium’s best American directors whose reach, like his protagonist’s, exceeds his grasp.
It’s a movie that is well intentioned and aims big, but ends up being somewhat shallow.
Scenes come and go with a weightlessness that has nothing to do with zero gravity.
Great care was put into crafting a believable future, and the technical aspects of Ad Astra are all of high quality. Really good direction, a great performance from Brad Pitt, and beautiful cinematography. I only wish it had a stronger story to pull it all together. Unfortunately, its simplistic themes and a couple of oddly out of place action sequences make this a bit of a chore to watch.
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A space movie with big name actors like Tommy Lee Jones and Brad Pitt? A big budget? What could go wrong? Well the answer here is the writing. Whoever it was that authored this plot spent far too much time smelling his own farts and posturing as deep and philosophical, because in reality, the move is extremely shallow. The plot and direction really waste the clearly expert special effects artists and talent of the actors in the film. Boring, snobby movie that is convinced that it's the greatest thing of all time, when it quite obviously isn't.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Pitt carries this movie beyond its predictable plot and various subplots that are touched upon but never truly explored. Couple that with a crippling slow pace and you have a pretty mediocre movie. I really don't get the praise of this one. There was so much they could have axed out to quicken things up and not miss a beat, would have made for a better movie too.
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Production Company
New Regency Productions,
Bona Film Group,
CAA Media Finance,
Keep Your Head,
MadRiver Pictures,
Plan B Entertainment,
RT Features,
Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date Sep 20, 2019
Duration 2 h 3 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The Answers We Seek Are Just Outside Our Reach
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
DiscussingFilm Critic Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Odyssey Awards
• 6 Nominations