Film review: Ad Astra
5 years, 4 months ago

Film review: Ad Astra

BBC  

Film review: Ad Astra Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut extraordinaire in a space-travel movie full of rollicking action. The Venice Film Festival has launched three of Hollywood’s most thoughtful space-travel movies recently, with last year’s First Man following Arrival and Gravity. This year, it’s the turn of Ad Astra, written and directed by James Gray, and starring Brad Pitt as Major Roy McBride, astronaut extraordinaire. What follows is, essentially, a Buck Rogers-style yarn, complete with crash-landings and shoot-outs If you overlook some of the soppy psycho-babble, though, Ad Astra is a rewarding combination of pulpy B-movie and ominous, atmospheric drama.

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Space travel blockbuster 'sails' to Neptune
5 years, 1 month ago

Space travel blockbuster 'sails' to Neptune

China Daily  

Brad Pitt stars an astronaut in the space-travel film Ad Astra. Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut seeking his missing father, hit Chinese mainland theaters –including more than 660 Imax theaters -- on Dec 5. A directorial effort from James Gray, the film displays spectacular views of the solar system through the protagonist's interstellar odyssey from the Earth …

Ad Astra review: Brad Pitt’s space movie goes where no space movie has gone before.
5 years, 3 months ago

Ad Astra review: Brad Pitt’s space movie goes where no space movie has gone before.

Slate  

When Brad Pitt, as the astronaut Roy McBride, flies to the moon in James Gray’s elegant space epic Ad Astra, he takes Virgin Atlantic. These brand names go uncommented on, mere background details in the dense weave of a story that pairs intense action sequences—we’ll get to the moon-buggy car chase momentarily—with long stretches of near silent cockpit-bound solitude. Ryan …

Brad Pitt and James Gray take a giant leap with ‘Ad Astra’
5 years, 3 months ago

Brad Pitt and James Gray take a giant leap with ‘Ad Astra’

Associated Press  

VENICE, Italy — Brad Pitt made the first move with James Gray. That Pitt’s Plan B, New Regency and 20th Century Fox banded together to make “Ad Astra” happen is, Gray said, “Beyond rare.It’s a big risk.” Pitt, sitting next to his director, chimed in: “It’s why studios have veered away from them. It’s why they have to take safer …

Ad Astra first reviews are in, critics call Brad Pitt’s space epic a ‘visionary achievement’, a ‘thing of beauty’
5 years, 4 months ago

Ad Astra first reviews are in, critics call Brad Pitt’s space epic a ‘visionary achievement’, a ‘thing of beauty’

Hindustan Times  

The first reviews for James Gray’s space epic Ad Astra are in. Liv Tyler, Brad Pitt, Ruth Negga and director James Gray attend a photocall on August 29, 2019 for the film Ad Astra during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. John Nugent of Empire Magazine wrote, “Existential but also intimate, Ad Astra is a stunning, sensitive exploration …

Ad Astra: New sci-fi film starring Brad Pitt is dividing critics in a big way
5 years, 4 months ago

Ad Astra: New sci-fi film starring Brad Pitt is dividing critics in a big way

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New sci-fi film Ad Astra is proving extremely divisive among critics. …

Ad Astra review roundup: Brad Pitt film 'had a genuine wow-factor baked into its retro sci-fi aesthetic'
5 years, 4 months ago

Ad Astra review roundup: Brad Pitt film 'had a genuine wow-factor baked into its retro sci-fi aesthetic'

Firstpost  

Ad Astra has created considerable buzz ever since its trailer launch in June. Variety praises Brad Pitt’s difficult-to-go-wrong performance in the film, and highlights how the star may well be having his moment under the sun, what with the spectacular feedback of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood also making buzz. “Yet what would help it more is if the …

Review: Brad Pitt sets out to save the world in ‘Ad Astra,’ a space odyssey that stumbles and soars
5 years, 4 months ago

Review: Brad Pitt sets out to save the world in ‘Ad Astra,’ a space odyssey that stumbles and soars

LA Times  

Somber, stirring, ridiculous and just shy of sublime, James Gray’s speculative fiction “Ad Astra” opens with a vision of a man falling to Earth. As “Ad Astra” follows Roy toward the outer reaches of the solar system, tracing a path that superficially recalls the arc of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” it becomes increasingly elastic in its play with genre, shape-shifting …

Brad Pitt goes deep into space, masculinity in ‘Ad Astra’
5 years, 4 months ago

Brad Pitt goes deep into space, masculinity in ‘Ad Astra’

Associated Press  

VENICE, Italy — “Ad Astra” looks and sounds like a space epic with a movie star lead in Brad Pitt, but there’s a lot more going on beneath the surface. “I think we were asking the question: Is a better definition for us actually being more open divining a better relationship with your loved ones, with your parents, with your …

Ad Astra trailer: Brad Pitt embarks on a space mission to save the planet in James Gray's sci-fi film
5 years, 7 months ago

Ad Astra trailer: Brad Pitt embarks on a space mission to save the planet in James Gray's sci-fi film

Firstpost  

The first trailer of sci-fi film Ad Astra was released by 20th Century Fox on 5 June. Co-written by James Gray and Ethan Gross, Brad Pitt stars in it as astronaut Roy McBride. He can be heard saying that he chose his line of work because of his father, who was also an astronaut but went missing in a voyage …

Ad Astra trailer: Brad Pitt goes interstellar in Christopher Nolan-esque thriller. Watch here
5 years, 7 months ago

Ad Astra trailer: Brad Pitt goes interstellar in Christopher Nolan-esque thriller. Watch here

Hindustan Times  

20th Century Fox has revealed the first trailer for Ad Astra, director James Gray’s deep-space adventure film starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut who goes in search of his long lost father, played by Tommy Lee Jones. The two-and-a-half minute trailer opens with Pitt’s character, Roy McBride, saying that he owes everything to his dad, who went missing during a …

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