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IMDb rating 6.5
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Critic rating 7.5

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Max Delér
rated 9

After having been disappointed with the story after the first time I saw the movie, I realized I must have missed something. I rewatched the ending and it really solidified the movie. The acting, cinematography, soundtrack, VFX, directing, all spo...

2 years ago
Critic Brian Tallerico
rated 10

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.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 6

2001 meets Apocalypse Now” may be the preferred pitch for this self-consciously philosophical science-fiction adventure...

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic James Mottram
rated 10

...Pitt is on sensational form with the most mature, resonant performance of his career.

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Critic John Nugent
rated 8

For such an ambitious film, it’s remarkably meditative...

Read full review at Empire
Jackson Holiday Wheeler
rated 7

Both beautiful and a ruined shell of a film. Most of it is a 10 and yet it is fundamentally flawed, hence my 7/10 rating. It’s a masterpiece until 2/3 of the way through, I would have given it a 10/10 until that point (no spoilers here, will go in...

2 years ago
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Casper Björner
rated 7

I like it - not quite as action'ish as I had thought - but good!

3 years ago
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Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 8

...a spectacular, immersive picture, offering an intelligent and deeply considered variation on existing themes.

Read full review at The Guardian

Cast & Crew

James Gray
Director
James Gray
Writer
James Gray
Director
James Gray
Writer
Donald Sutherland
As Thomas Pruitt
Brad Pitt
As Roy McBride
Tommy Lee Jones
As H. Clifford McBride

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Ad Astra is a science fiction film set in the near future, where mysterious power surges threaten human civilization. The source of the surges is traced to a space station orbiting Neptune, which was sent 29 years ago to search for intelligent life. The station's leader, H. Clifford McBride, is presumed lost, and his son Roy McBride embarks on a mission to find out what happened to him and stop the power surges. Roy travels through the solar system and encounters various obstacles before reaching Neptune and uncovering secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and their place in the cosmos. Along the way, he reflects on his relationship with his missing father and grapples with uncomfortable truths about his own identity as he searches for answers about his father's fate..

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