Like the late Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, James Gray makes movies that suggest the work of a late 19th- or early 20th-century artist transported to the present. This may be somewhat ...

The further we travel into outer space, the more we realize our most important connections are down here on Earth. That’s the message of Ad Astra, a science fiction action movie that doubles as a ...

Voyager 2 took about 12 years to reach Neptune. Brad Pitt’s trip to the Blue Planet felt considerably longer. “Ad Astra” might be called concept science fiction, a contemplative journey into space.

You think you know your home planet. Then Brad Pitt makes a ravishing Hollywood space odyssey with car chases on the moon, perilous zero-gravity encounters, and rampaging baboons, and no one shows up ...