2019 · sci-fi · drama
Ad Astra
Directed by James Gray2h 3m2019
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.
Our read: Ad Astra (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured sci-fi / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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