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Ad Astra

Science FictionDrama

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. From TMDB

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    2 ink-style animations, for "Per Aspera Ad Astra" live action movie (2026), and the 2024 Summer Olympics. Both directed by Zhou Fangyuan & Shi Chenchen (Fangyuan Animation Studio, China).

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  • col price @coldesign.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    Per Aspera Ad Astra. was very lucky to work on Han yans epic scifi movie and design the main ship. a few shots here but il put the link for my artstation that has a ton of work there. artstation.com/coldesign #conceptart #conceptartist #conceptdesign #productionart #filmmaking

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  • Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    And I love movies like The Thing, but I tried to curate a list where most of them are a little lesser known or are worth reevaluation (like, Ad Astra, which has the most terrifying evocation of deep space I've seen and is a deeply fucked up movie.)

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  • Bo Yeon Kim (DEADLINE HIATUS UNTIL MID-OCT) @extspace.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    On a bit of a "lost in space" movie kick while writing this spec that has an isolation theme. (Re)watched Apollo 13, Gravity, The Martian, Event Horizon, Interstellar, Passengers, Ad Astra, The Last Days on Mars, Alien, Solaris. Maybe Sunshine next? What am I missing?

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    This weeks L4W: TRON: Ares (2025) Ad Astra (2019) The Running Man (2025) Roofman (2025) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️

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  • Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller star in the first trailer for crime thriller Paper Tiger. The film comes from Armageddon Time and Ad Astra filmmaker James Gray. Watch the trailer: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2026

    I cannot recommend watching Ad Astra with brad pitt enough, it is quite possibly the funniest movie, and the less you know about it, the better

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  • Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.comBluesky · Nov 2, 2023

    Huh, Amazon prime just rec'd Ad Astra to me, and I feel like there is no way that this movie slipped by me when it released b/c I watch *literally all the space movies* but I watched the trailer and Gandalf Has No Memory Of This Place dot Gif I guess I'll have to watch it (again?)

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  • Seva @seva.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    Ad Astra is a funny movie because it’s meant to be this pensive meditation on fatherhood and fate and then throws in moon pirates and a space baboon as random obstacles

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2026

    next week I get to choose the movie me and my pals watch and I feel like I owe it to, like, the vague concept of science fiction to pick the anti-Ad Astra, a movie that's really smart and good, but it also needs to be one we, the girlthers, have not seen

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  • Lauren Wilford @laurenwilford.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    saw Ad Astra last night & regret not seeing it on the big screen. A totally sensually immersive space movie— great care went into design, lighting, VFX & sound. Made you feel the length and loneliness of space travel. Must see if you are an Interstellar or Blade Runner 2049 head

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  • CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.comBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Oh lolz ... I just got the Netflix: Your Zodiac Sign Watchlist (apparently, it matches your star sign with recommendations). On brand with astrology, it got most recommendations wrong, and even had 'Ad Astra' in there. I despise that film. More evidence in the BS of astrology.

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  • What Cargie Does In The Shadows @cargie.babyBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    A few years ago i saw another movie about a lonely spaceman on a desperate mission played by a well known heartthrob A-lister, that also got spectacular reviews, and that movie was Ad Astra with Brad Pitt and I fucking hated it

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  • ESC Riley 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @royalriley.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Ad Astra. I’ve never been so aggressively bored by a movie in my life. Every minute felt like the director was TRYING to waste my time.

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  • Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2025

    I'm having a third look at sci-fi film Ad Astra, apparently Brad Pitt had been wanting to make the film made for years, it wasn't particularly well received I suspect because it eluded the usual narrative, it is also somewhat haunting like Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) - worth a look (Netflix)

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  • Gregory Ellwood @gregoryellwood.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    Love for Ad Astra aside, Paper Tigers is James Gray’s best movie in forever. Great performance from Scarlett Johansson #Cannes .

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  • Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    Starting a hesuipian (Chinese new year movie) thread, I've talked about Han Yan's #scifi #film 星河入梦 Per Aspera Ad Astra before, it's marketed as a "thriller made for young people" (shame it hasn't got an English title to match this energy). The premise isn't bad 1/

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  • P E N N Y @pennyclark.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    Movie about Space Exploration: Ad Astra (2019) #FilmSky #JulyMovieChallenge #Day15

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  • Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    Ad Astra is a visually spectacular film, inside which resides a soap opera about fathers, sons, battle scars, and mental health. Brad Pitt gives an understated performance as an astronaut who long ago learned to compartmentalize his emotions to the extreme. This is Pitt's film. #FilmSky 📽

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  • Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2024

    I wish I'd seen Ad Astra in the cinema. I really enjoyed it, I liked the sedate pace and muted performances, and the design work was stupendous. Brad Pitt was excellent and I found the entire movie enthralling.

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  • MD Presley @mdpresley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    The movie I developed is finally out on Netflix. Huzzah! If you want some insanity injected directly into your eyeholes you should check out Per Aspera Ad Astra today!

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  • Xanadu, Zonked Croc @scalednspiralled.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    Adastra: Very good sci-fi visual novel Ad Astra: Excruciatingly boring sci-fi movie Don’t make my mistake

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  • Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Whilst I'm still seeing (and working on) some great new science fiction coming out of China, the industry seems to be turning the focus to screen works. Per Aspera Ad Astra 星河入梦, a dream-themed #scifi adventure #film, out in July. It looks fun.

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  • Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.comBluesky · Oct 22, 2023

    Watching Blade Runner 2049 in the run up to seeing The Creator next week. Tomorrow night Ad Astra with that fabulous Max Richter score to follow on the Wallfisch/Zimmer score tonight. The Creator is more Zimmer. Great scores are a huge part of my movie joy.

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  • John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    Some old film 'sketch' pages (from 2017) I found on a hard drive whilst looking for something else entirely. Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981 Russian film). Dip pen and ink and water/digital colour. I drew the inky bits as I watched and coloured/lettered and arranged afterwards.

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  • Elcee Rod 🦔🇵🇷 @elcee-rod.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    Brad Pitt's Ad Astra. The positive rating assured me it was a deep, compelling space film, but it went fucking nowhere. It wasn't anything I haven't seen before, and the protag was unsympathetic. It's like it was ashamed to be a sci-fi film.

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  • Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobiBluesky · Sep 15, 2024

    Was trying to watch a YouTube video, but an unstoppable 2019 Brad Pitt film called Ad Astra played first.

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  • Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    Ad Astra is fascinating because I know nothing about the making of this film but as I’m watching it right now, I’ve never been more sure that a movie has been hacked to pieces and remade in a studio edit than this one. I so desperately want to see the movie the director wanted to make.

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  • Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Also! ALSO! The last Rambo movie was not a hit! Opened third behind DOWNTON ABBEY and AD ASTRA! Who the fuck thinks * Noah Centineo* is gonna resurrect this shit?

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  • weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2025

    Ad Astra really is a horror movie: letterboxd.com/gemmafiles_1...

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  • Joshua @scarritt.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    I watched Ad Astra last night and I'm still trying to figure out if I enjoyed it.🤔

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  • HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2023

    Introduce yourself with 1 TTRPG, 1 book, 1 board game, 1 movie, & 1 TV show. 🎲: Monsterhearts 2e 📚: Gideon the Ninth ♟️: AD ASTRA 🎥: 300 📺: Seinfeld

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  • Bulldozer 🍉 @rustyjuggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Gut-punch Space Movie Marathon: 1️⃣ Contact 2️⃣ Arrival 3️⃣ Ad Astra 4️⃣ Gravity 5️⃣ Interstellar Any suggested additions?

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  • Ollie - Obstreperous Young Lady🦇🦄 @rabbitholer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Ad Astra. That film should've been an email.

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  • Tore Hofstad @redhotfatso.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2026

    Mindre tid til film for tiden, og så har det blitt litt serier innimellom. Nice guys - svært fornøyelig. End of watch var overraskende bra, sterk kjemi. One hour photo hadde kvaliteter, men ingen højdare. Jeg digget Ad Astra, strålende "atmosfære" og lyddesign! #filmskya #LastFourWatched

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  • LAUcifer, Sommelier of Gothic Male Vintage @elegantlab.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    Anyway, picked up a bunch of y'all's sci-fi film suggestions from the library. Was sad they didn't have Gattaca. - Europa Report - Fantastic Voyage - Solaris (remake) - Moon - Companion - Ad Astra - Lifeforce - Silent Running

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  • Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    That’s funny. I am watching Ad Astra, a movie that asks the question - what if you go to space and Daddy still doesn’t love you?

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  • Eddie Current @cheatlines.coBluesky · Nov 6, 2024

    Having to test a surround sound system under extreme duress is a hell of a way to find out that Ad Astra is a quiet-ass movie

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  • politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    Ad Astra is an absolutely fantastic film that I'm still kind of amazed people just forgot about a month after it released.

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  • Leszek @lespil64.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    #1artist1album1song 2/11 from Belgium The album was inspired by the film "Ad Astra", starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. "Tars" is the name of a robot in the film "Interstellar". ⭐Tars 💿Per Aspera (2024) 🎶Roy tars.bandcamp.com/album/per-as... open.spotify.com/track/27jF4P...

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  • Anomalous Jen @anomalouslibrarian.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2023

    Repost with your favorite tv or movie lawyer Ad Astra Per Aspera was so moving.

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  • Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.meBluesky · Dec 9, 2023

    What’s the best sci-fi movie ever made about outer space — other than Kubrick’s 2001? I just finished the Three Body Problem books, and I’m itching for a taste of it on film. The obvious contenders that come to mind: Interstellar, Alien(s), Gravity, Ad Astra, Solaris, Sunshine, Dark Star

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  • KanDrama.cat @kandrama.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    Today it's the turn of "Per Aspera Ad Astra" a Chinese film starring #DylanWang and #VictoriaSong Entertaining and chaotic, with good ideas and moments even if it may fall into some thematic cliché at times. Dylan always 🔝 #cdrama #movie #scifi

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  • Joe Nielsen A/K/A “XAB101010” @joenielsen10.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand 🥦 Grapefruit 🎥 Ad Astra 🎶 “The Rib,” by Jeannie C. Riley

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  • Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.comBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    ⭐ Ad astra 🔭 is a great astronomical expression. It means "to the stars." Ad Astra is also a horrible movie that has almost zero adherence to fact or logic. m.imdb.com/title/tt2935...

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  • June Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Fav series: TNG Fav episode: Ad Astra Per Aspera Fav movie: Undiscovered Country #StarTrek

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  • Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    It’s weird. I fucking love Sunshine. I fucking adore Gravity. I really dig The Martian and even though it has serious late third act problems you gotta dig a film as pure cinema as Interstellar’s docking chase. I’m even good with Ad Astra … but have NO interest whatsoever in Project Hail Mary.

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  • Tana @tanasimensis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Ad Astra was a weird movie.

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  • patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Ad Astra never got its due IMO — great movie about space.

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  • Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.comBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Also, Ad Astra. Or as I started calling it: “Sad Brad and the Search for His Bad Dad.” They made a movie about space boring. There was a car chase on the MOON and I was BORED.

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  • Rev. Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    I somehow missed Ad Astra when it first came out, but I just watched it last night and it's now my favorite science fiction film since Interstellar. #adastra #scienceficton

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    Big fan. I really love the early cycle of crime films - Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own the Night - and I think his best film came next, Two Lovers. The switch into bigger budget epics hasn't always been smooth. Lost City of Z is excellent; Ad Astra didn't work perfectly for me...

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  • The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    Watched PER ASPERA AD ASTRA (2026) last night. Interesting film. Very high end production values, but not the film it presented itself as at the beginning. It kicks off as a "silly schmuck in space" movie with strong READY PLAYER ONE vibes, but then turns into something very pertinent at the climax.

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    PER ASPERA AD ASTRA 📽️ is a blockbuster Chinese kids' movie about the evils of AI and it's nice to see hating AI bringing the whole world together! I had fun movieswetextedabout.com/per-aspera-a...

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  • Graeme Strachan @gstrachan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    See, this is one that fascinates me. I actually quite liked Ad Astra, despite it being a pretty mid-movie in all ways other than maybe... visually. But I clicked about 15 mins in that it was just Heart of Darkness IN SPACE! so I pretty much knew where the whole thing was going after that.

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  • Ken Smith @kensmith199.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    1) this is the first time I don't have an answer. As a kid, I would read as many magazines as I could about space, watch every documentary that came out about space, loved going to the Griffith Observatory, and space is one of my favorite movie genres (Ad Astra is great movie). 2) tacos! #HATM

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  • Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    Just watched Ad Astra. That is the maddest film I've ever seen. I didn't understand any of it. Moon pirates, killer monkeys in space, unexplained solar storms (that never get explained), travelling a billion miles (accurately) using a nuclear explosion as propulsion. Nuts.

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  • Patio Yeller @patioyeller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Ad Astra was really strange, there's so many background shit in the movie that made me go, "no, go back to that!" Like that weird spaceman mad max moon buggy fight

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  • Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    Ad Astra, man, that was a disappointing movie imho.

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  • Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    I watched Ad Astra and I really liked it. For once, I will let a film off for being about men, because it’s (at least partly) about what’s wrong with the idea of Great Men and the mythologising of history in their favour.

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