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 ...

They ask Roy to travel to Mars to send a communication to his father to stop the flares before the earth is destroyed. “Ad Astra” is an ... the climactic scenes of Roy and Cliff together ...

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 ...

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 ...

whether it’s pirates on the moon or a distress call Roy and other astronauts investigate en route to Mars that becomes the film’s most explosive and terrifying scene. Ad Astra is surprising ...

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 ...

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.

We had multiple bases on Mars, with hundreds of people living ... We could have been making Ad Astra’s scenes happen in real life. We need to remember what has probably always been the main ...

In “Ad Astra,” Brad Pitt’s astronaut ... heightened the intensity of one scene in which McBride fights his way aboard a spaceship leaving Mars, and another in which a shuttle crew answers ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...