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Posted inFilm Reviews

Daddy Issues in Space: ‘Ad Astra’ Looks Good, but the Listless Plot Dooms It to Failure

Director James Gray and star Brad Pitt came up with a decent-looking, meditative, unsettling and messy attempt at meaningful science fiction with Ad Astra. Pitt plays Roy McBride, an astronaut following in the footsteps of his father (Tommy Lee Jones) decades after his dad disappeared on a scientific expedition searching for alien life somewhere around […]

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