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Ad Astra
Steven Spielberg has long main-
tained that had he made Close
Encounters of the Third Kind af-
ter marrying and having kids, it
would have ended very differ-
ently. After becoming a family
man, Spielberg balked at the idea
that a father and husband would
walk away from his family and
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by Eric Hillis
take a ride off into the great un-
known with a bunch of aliens. Has
writer/director James Gray be-
come a family man in the short
time between his previous movie,
2016’s The Lost City of Z, and
his latest, Ad Astra? His new film
plays like something of a thematic
rejoinder to his last one.
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