NASA and every other organization with boots on Mars as a goal ... steady amount of thrust. Ad Astra also gets sound right, embracing silence when necessary. Some scenes take place in an anechoic ...

And yet, beyond being contemplative, “Ad Astra” also wants to thrill you. For the most part, it succeeds, complete with a Mars rover “space pirates” car chase scene and a research-animal ...

Related: 'Ad Astra' Sneak Peek ... especially with the scenes on Mars and framing of shots of Ruth Negga within the Martian habitat. The close ups of Pitt too, throughout the duration of the ...

“Ad Astra” takes place in a future where humans have colonized the moon, Mars and have even begun to explore other ... that forces him to be extremely expressive. There is one scene in particular ...

Roy must travel to the Moon and then Mars to send a message to his father ... Believe it or not that was a lot more plausible than this scene in Ad Astra, but fans hated it.

Eventually, they intend to send astronauts to Mars. For those of us to remain ... As we get started, let's take a look at a few scenes from Ad Astra. MS. HORNADAY: Good evening, and thanks again ...

Brad Pitt toplines 'Ad Astra,' director James Gray's first foray ... here is wrenching in its ambivalence and constraint. A later scene, when Roy goes off-script while recording an official ...

essayed by Liv Tyler in such a fleeting handful of scenes that she seems like a ghost. Actually Ad Astra is kind of a ghost story: McBride is haunted by the specter of his dad Clifford (Tommy Lee ...

Francois Duhamel/20th Century Fox Visually austere and narratively clotted, “Ad Astra” tends to work best in isolated scenes rather ... unsettled Mars dweller. A tense detour on a space ...

If you have not seen Ad Astra and do not wish to read spoilers ... lunar buggies (in what may be the most interesting and fresh scene of the movie). Maybe astronauts are cowboys.

In an early scene, his wife, played by Liv Tyler, walks out on him. The reason? He’s too distant, too numbly preoccupied with his disconsolate demons. “Ad Astra” is a Latin phrase that means ...