'Ad Astra' review: Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut whose father disappeared on a mission to contact extraterrestrial life in James Gray’s sci-fi look at the loneliness and isolation of space
Watch a clip from the movie ‘Ad Astra,’ directed by James Gray and starring Brad Pitt. Photo: Walt Disney StudiosYou can’t really out-Kubrick Kubrick, but director James Gray gives it a shot with the trippily unnerving “Ad Astra” —“to the stars,” as Virgil put it. Mr.
Gray is carving his own space out of space, so to speak, and provides startling new ways of seeing the knowable universe. But there’s also a “2001”-ish dread to “Ad Astra,” a creep-show quality that arises not just from the eeriness of events, but from having the human being’s place in the cosmos rendered so insignificant, and solitary.
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