Ad Astra (2019) poster
2019 · sci-fi · drama

Ad Astra

Directed by James Gray2h 3m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.5278kRT83%Metacritic80TMDB6.17k
  • sombre
  • measured
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Sombre, measured, measured sci-fi / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want lonely space odyssey about fathers, sons, and silence.

ends bittersweetit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 30attention 4/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSlow cosmic melancholy will feel pretentious tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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