Brad Pitt plays an interstellar astronaut embarking on a dangerous and personal mission in the latest from James Gray

In Ad Astra, an emotionally closed-off astronaut travels across the solar system to find his long-lost father — and, perhaps, finally achieve some closure with the man whose absence has left a psychic scar.

Director James Gray’s spectacular science-fiction drama concerns a journey that’s as much metaphorical as it is literal, confidently anchored by Brad Pitt playing an enigma who carries his missing father around with him like a phantom limb....

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