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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Mistaking moroseness for meditative, Ad Astra has the positives of a lush score and some extraordinary visuals that I figure on a large screen are breathtaking. However, the film as a whole wallows in its own self-importance.
- Michael Barrett @ PopMatters
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A thought-provoking parabolic science fiction film about the transformation of an astronaut hobbled by a wounded feeling function.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …Gray has gone with the slowly paced, visual razzle dazzle of a “2001.” Unfortunately, the 124 minute film…tells a story which could be conveyed with one sentence. Some may rhapsodize, others will be bored to tears.
- Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows
- Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
- Excerpt: What Ad Astra presupposes is to heal the hurt in your life you have to lean further into them and eventually through them, as hard as that is.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: A few minor gripes aside, the film is a wonderous and bold science fiction film achored by a terrific Brad Pitt performance.
- M Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest
- Excerpt: Starring a terrifically memorable Brad Pitt, James Gray’s Ad Astra is a layered, pensive meditation communicating deeper truths of our inherent desire to explore the universe wrapped in gorgeously spectacular visuals.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Candice Frederick @ The Wrap
- Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis [Spanish]
- Roxana Hadadi @ Pajiba.com
- Excerpt: “I’m looking for you all the time,” Roy admits when thinking of his father, and Ad Astra’s investment in that father-son relationship, and in the alternate ways we mythologize and destroy the ones we claim to love, is deliberately pensive.
- Roderick Heath @ Film Freedonia
- Excerpt: Gray’s recurring mental landscapes are a warzone in the clash between identity and aspiration, enacted by people who sign on to repeat the journeys of their mentors and forebears despite many good reasons not to.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: One day the beauty of the cosmos will be used a metaphor for a happy and well-adjusted life. Until then, there’s Ad Astra.
- Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: By alternating between our struggles to find our way in an intimidatingly vast universe and to have meaningful connections in close corners of our own world, James Gray has delivered a ride that isn’t smooth or easy but does skillfully remind us how far we have to go on both counts.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Excerpt: Fifty years after man first landed on the moon comes Ad Astra, an existential space epic with the lofty aspirations of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the common sense to enliven proceedings with moon pirates and feral zero-gravity apes.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: This is an inward journey illustrated by an outward push to our solar system’s edge. [Roy] must confront where he came from to accept who it is that he’s become.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Ad Astra is ambitious to a point and certainly worthwhile for many reasons.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Great Effort!
- Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: This is an accomplishment of contemplative science fiction that is felt in your core as much as it pours wonderment in your eyes.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Excerpt: Brad Pitt’s interstellar performance sends ‘Ad Astra’ sky high.
- Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
- Excerpt: Gray creates a very satisfying atmosphere and world here, but some of the mechanics of the story didn’t work for me.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
- Tynan Yanaga @ 4 Star Films
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