When you hear the name Brad Pitt, what comes to mind? A beautiful charming face, chiseled abs, his popular romantic entanglement, or his movies? There are many sides to the iconic American actor, however, this article focuses on his collection of exceptional movies. From smaller roles to the bigger ones that established him as a Hollywood icon, here’s a list of the best to worst Brad Pitt movies we have seen so far.
Top 20 Brad Pitt Movies
Source: Vulture
Since making his first appearance in 1987 on “Dallas,” Brad Pitt has enjoyed a decent career over the last four decades with over 80 movies and TV shows. Which Brad Pitt movie is your favorite? Here’s a list of 20 out of his movie roles, ranked from best to worst. The dates of the movies are in no particular order.
1. “Fight Club (1999)”
No hype, Pitt’ performance in “Fight Club” starring Tyler Durden...
Top 20 Brad Pitt Movies
Source: Vulture
Since making his first appearance in 1987 on “Dallas,” Brad Pitt has enjoyed a decent career over the last four decades with over 80 movies and TV shows. Which Brad Pitt movie is your favorite? Here’s a list of 20 out of his movie roles, ranked from best to worst. The dates of the movies are in no particular order.
1. “Fight Club (1999)”
No hype, Pitt’ performance in “Fight Club” starring Tyler Durden...
- 11/3/2022
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
Astronaut Roy McBride is unflappable and known for it, out-reputed only by his own father who casts on him a shadow akin to that of the dark side of the moon. His father has been gone a long time, disappearing after a quest to Neptune in the pursuit of intelligent life took him and his crew beyond the detection of home-base. We’re introduced to the younger McBride only briefly before we see him survive a crisis when the space station he’s working on is hit by a mysterious surge of energy that sends him flying from just outside earth’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. After a quick recovery, he’s brought into a confidential briefing where his informed that the cause of the surges—which are growing in number—is near Neptune, where the Lima mission brought his father before he lost touch with command sixteen years ago.
- 9/21/2019
- MUBI
Eight hours before the world premiere of James Gray’s “Ad Astra,” the writer-director was enjoying a quiet catnap on the bed of his Venice hotel room. And yet, for all the jet-lag he felt after flying in from Los Angeles the previous day, Gray sprang into action without missing a step. He popped to his feet, splashed a few drops of cold water in his face, and detailed the ups and downs of a rough night’s sleep with all the gravitas of a Greek tragedy. He’d only been awake for about 30 seconds and he was already hot with the kind of amiable Jewish agita that lets you know that everything is totally fine.
If not for the anxious publicist who was pacing around the hallway outside, you wouldn’t have guessed that Gray was about to unveil the biggest film he’s ever made. An intimate blockbuster...
If not for the anxious publicist who was pacing around the hallway outside, you wouldn’t have guessed that Gray was about to unveil the biggest film he’s ever made. An intimate blockbuster...
- 9/20/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
David Crow Sep 19, 2019
We examine what Brad Pitt finds at the end of the solar system in Ad Astra and what it says about the nature of faith.
This article features nothing but Ad Astra spoilers.
The distance between fathers and sons can feel lightyears apart, even when they’re in the same room. This is the basic premise of James Gray’s moody and introspective Ad Astra, which places a literal solar system between Roy (Brad Pitt) and Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). It is also the one fleeting, if tangible, emotion to take hold when Pitt’s stoic son must let go of his even more taciturn father. Like some interstellar version of the “Cats and the Cradle,” this generally reserved picture uses emotional anguish and the heat it produces to fill the cold vacuum of space.
The actual events that unfold between the two are fairly simple…...
We examine what Brad Pitt finds at the end of the solar system in Ad Astra and what it says about the nature of faith.
This article features nothing but Ad Astra spoilers.
The distance between fathers and sons can feel lightyears apart, even when they’re in the same room. This is the basic premise of James Gray’s moody and introspective Ad Astra, which places a literal solar system between Roy (Brad Pitt) and Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). It is also the one fleeting, if tangible, emotion to take hold when Pitt’s stoic son must let go of his even more taciturn father. Like some interstellar version of the “Cats and the Cradle,” this generally reserved picture uses emotional anguish and the heat it produces to fill the cold vacuum of space.
The actual events that unfold between the two are fairly simple…...
- 9/20/2019
- Den of Geek
Director/writer James Gray’s film Ad Astra (a Latin term meaning ‘to the stars’) is a rare find – an outstanding science-fiction film more interested in ideas than scary critters. Ad Astra takes place in an unspecified future, described as “a time of conflict and hope”. Brad Pitt stars as Roy McBride, an astronaut so calm his pulse doesn’t rise even when he’s introduced tumbling free-fall to Earth from a Space Antenna in the upper atmosphere. An electric surge has caused Roy’s latest project’s destruction, along with thousands of other catastrophes worldwide. It’s soon clear the energy blasts are coming from Neptune. That’s the location of the ‘Lima Project’, a lost expedition lead by Roy’s father (and American hero) Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) thirty years earlier. Roy and a small crew are enlisted by Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland) and others for a...
- 9/19/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Seek out the nearest jumbo screen and let filmmaker James Gray, a renegade visionary with a big reach and a knack for sneaky mischief, sweep you off ad astra (that’s “to the stars” in Latin). Getting lost in the space conjured up by the writer-director and the brilliant Dutch-Swedish cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (Interstellar, Dunkirk) to screw with your head and throw off your equilibrium is part of the fun. Plus you’ll have Brad Pitt for company, which is good since he’s giving one of his best...
- 9/17/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
James Gray never gets the acclaim that he deserves. For years, the filmmaker has been doing high quality work that repeatedly gets the short shrift. Especially with Two Lovers, the lack of love is just absurd. This week, however, he’s finally going to be on the radar of the masses, as his largest movie to date is opening in Ad Astra. With some of his most emotional directing, alongside a phenomenal Brad Pitt lead performance, this is damn near a masterpiece. Without question, this is one of the best works of 2019 so far. Furthermore, it’s not at all like you probably imagined it would be when the project was first announced. It’s something different, and truly, something more. The film is a science fiction drama mixed with a mystery, though that’s an incredibly reductive description. Set in the not at all distant future, humanity has made technological gains,...
- 9/17/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Brad Pitt gives a career best performance as an astronaut who travels to the outer edges of the solar system in search of his long lost father in Ad Astra, James Gray’s entrancing new science-fiction movie. The film’s title is part of the latin phrase “Per aspera ad astra”, roughly meaning “through hardships to the stars”
As Earth is hit with a series of electrical surges emanating from outer space, astronaut Roy McBride (Pitt) is called upon by his superiors to discuss a recent incident which almost ended his tragedy for him. When he arrives at the meeting, McBride slowly realises that what the authorities really need from him is to act as bait for his father, the legendary astronaut and scientist Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) who disappeared some three decades earlier whilst on a research mission, and who is thought to be behind the recent cosmic events.
As Earth is hit with a series of electrical surges emanating from outer space, astronaut Roy McBride (Pitt) is called upon by his superiors to discuss a recent incident which almost ended his tragedy for him. When he arrives at the meeting, McBride slowly realises that what the authorities really need from him is to act as bait for his father, the legendary astronaut and scientist Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) who disappeared some three decades earlier whilst on a research mission, and who is thought to be behind the recent cosmic events.
- 9/11/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A year after the walls of the Sala Darsena thrummed to Damien Chazelle’s Ryan Gosling-led voyage to the moon, First Man, Venice braced for another space journey. For a festival that’s traditionally allocated the coveted opening slot to big studio productions and grand epics, it felt somewhat surprising to see the 76th official lineup kick off with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth and not what was trumpeted as the year’s biggest epic among its twenty-one Golden Lion contenders, Ad Astra. James Gray’s latest—and largest commercial undertaking to date—found a slot in the second festival day. A Brad Pitt vehicle, it was the sort of blockbuster-to-be that would leave the streets around the Sala Grande’s red carpet swamped with fans fishing for autographs and pictures.Quite a departure from Gray’s previous earthling offerings—if you can attach a leitmotif to a protean...
- 8/30/2019
- MUBI
In the opening sequence of “Ad Astra,” Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), a veteran U.S. astronaut, is doing what he does at the top of a space antenna, an elaborate piece of technological scaffolding so tall that it juts right up from the earth into the outer void. (It’s enough to make that famous 1932 photograph of construction workers eating lunch while sitting on a skyscraper girder not look vertigo-inducing.) Suddenly, there’s a mysterious power surge, which sends dozens of astronauts tumbling off the antenna. Roy bounds down a few levels to shut off the power, then makes his own escape, leaping off the structure and plunging to the earth below — an ultimate sky-dive that takes him from the blackness of space to the blueness of the atmosphere, until the earth begins to rear up and, at long last, he pulls his parachute strap.
It’s a bedazzling and terrifying sequence,...
It’s a bedazzling and terrifying sequence,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Ad Astra is finally here. Lifting off this week at the Venice film festival with enormous ambitions if somewhat limited thrust, James Gray’s long-awaited sci-fi adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (that nicely malleable of texts) expands like a supernova without ever quite inspiring the introspection it needs to thrive. The result is a rarity that should be seen, regardless. It’s a deeply personal film about human nature from a beloved filmmaker who has been given the largest canvas imaginable–with all the trimmings–that ultimately proves a bit of a slog.
Set in the near future, Gray’s seventh film as director (it was co-written with recent collaborator Ethan Gross) follows the story of a man who is sent to the edges of the solar system to find the one person potentially capable of saving Earth from impending doom: his dad. Brad Pitt stars as Major Roy McBride,...
Set in the near future, Gray’s seventh film as director (it was co-written with recent collaborator Ethan Gross) follows the story of a man who is sent to the edges of the solar system to find the one person potentially capable of saving Earth from impending doom: his dad. Brad Pitt stars as Major Roy McBride,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The stars are descending on Italy for this year’s Venice International Film Festival — including Brad Pitt, whose space thriller Ad Astra premieres at the festival on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Pitt was seen arriving in Venice, keeping things casual in a t-shirt, jacket and newsboy cap. The star, 55, was spotted again on Wednesday and appeared in good spirits as he smiled and waved to fans.
The Venice Film Festival, often seen as the unofficial beginning of Oscars season, kicks off on Wednesday. Among the highly-anticipated films premiering at the festival are Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver‘s Marriage Story, Timothée...
On Tuesday, Pitt was seen arriving in Venice, keeping things casual in a t-shirt, jacket and newsboy cap. The star, 55, was spotted again on Wednesday and appeared in good spirits as he smiled and waved to fans.
The Venice Film Festival, often seen as the unofficial beginning of Oscars season, kicks off on Wednesday. Among the highly-anticipated films premiering at the festival are Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver‘s Marriage Story, Timothée...
- 8/28/2019
- by Helen Murphy
- PEOPLE.com
What’s bigger than space? In a fitting twist on filmmaker James Gray’s special brand of massive, large-scale filmmaking, his long-gestating space epic “Ad Astra” is set for an IMAX release when it rolls out in theaters next month.
The film marks star Brad Pitt’s second buzzy role this year, following his turn in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which offered him a markedly different leading man role. In Gray’s film, Pitt is cast as something new for the longtime actor: a space explorer, albeit one with a strange mission that doesn’t follow the typical narrative expectations of the genre.
Gray himself has said his intention with “Ad Astra,” which seems to be something of a mix of “Interstellar” and “Gravity” with one heck of a question mark at its heart, was to feature “the most realistic depiction of space travel that...
The film marks star Brad Pitt’s second buzzy role this year, following his turn in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which offered him a markedly different leading man role. In Gray’s film, Pitt is cast as something new for the longtime actor: a space explorer, albeit one with a strange mission that doesn’t follow the typical narrative expectations of the genre.
Gray himself has said his intention with “Ad Astra,” which seems to be something of a mix of “Interstellar” and “Gravity” with one heck of a question mark at its heart, was to feature “the most realistic depiction of space travel that...
- 8/21/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Outer space got more interesting, and a little more handsome, in the newest trailer for Brad Pitt‘s Ad Astra.
The upcoming sci-fi drama sees Pitt’s astronaut Roy McBride blasting out of Earth’s atmosphere on a mission to save the world and find his long-lost astronaut father, played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Jones’ character Clifford McBride went missing in space years earlier while studying a “highly classified material.”
But the new trailer reveals that catastrophic power outages that the Earth has been experiencing, called “the surge,” could have something to do with his father, who may be hiding...
The upcoming sci-fi drama sees Pitt’s astronaut Roy McBride blasting out of Earth’s atmosphere on a mission to save the world and find his long-lost astronaut father, played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Jones’ character Clifford McBride went missing in space years earlier while studying a “highly classified material.”
But the new trailer reveals that catastrophic power outages that the Earth has been experiencing, called “the surge,” could have something to do with his father, who may be hiding...
- 7/18/2019
- by Colleen Cronin
- PEOPLE.com
Oscar season is getting a double dose of Brad Pitt thanks to his leading turns in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and James Gray’s “Ad Astra.” Tarantino’s movie arrives this summer, while Gray’s long-awaited space drama hits theaters in September after numerous delays because of the movie’s extensive post-production. “Ad Astra” marks a reunion between Gray and Pitt after “The Lost City of Z,” which the actor produced (but did not star in) under his Plan B banner.
In “Ad Astra” Pitt gets in front of the camera as Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer who embarks on an ambitious space mission to find out the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of his father. Clifford McBride, played by Tommy Lee Jones, was an astronaut who set out on a journey to Neptune looking for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence but never returned. The supporting cast includes Liv Tyler,...
In “Ad Astra” Pitt gets in front of the camera as Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer who embarks on an ambitious space mission to find out the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of his father. Clifford McBride, played by Tommy Lee Jones, was an astronaut who set out on a journey to Neptune looking for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence but never returned. The supporting cast includes Liv Tyler,...
- 7/18/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Yesterday morning, a long awaited Trailer was released for Ad Astra, a movie that cinephiles have been very much anticipating. Science Fiction has been starting to get its due and respect from the Academy in recent years, so the thought of an art film director tackling this genre, on a huge canvas, with one of the biggest stars in the world, was basically everything that a fan of the movies could ask for. The film did not disappoint with this first look, either. You’ll be able to see the Trailer for Ad Astra at the bottom of this post, though first, let us chat about the flick a bit, especially in terms of how we may have ourselves an Oscar player here. The film is the latest from well respected filmmaker James Gray, his largest scale one to date, easily. This is the simple plot synopsis from IMDb:...
- 6/6/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Joseph Baxter Aug 21, 2019
Ad Astra, a sci-fi film epic, will see Brad Pitt star as an Army space engineer.
Ad Astra is a sci-fi film project that stars Brad Pitt as Roy McBride, an astronaut who travels to the outer edges of the solar system in an attempt to find his missing father and, you know, save Earth.
The film is helmed by James Gray, working off a script he co-wrote with Ethan Gross. Gray wrote and directed The Lost City of Z, the 2013 romantic drama The Immigrant (which featured Pitt’s Allied co-star Marion Cotillard), the 2007 Mark Wahlberg crime drama We Own the Night, going back to his debut in the 1994 Tim Roth crime drama Little Odessa.
Ad Astra Trailer
We have a new trailer for Ad Astra that gives us a better look at the film's plot than ever before. It seems that Roy isn't just looking for...
Ad Astra, a sci-fi film epic, will see Brad Pitt star as an Army space engineer.
Ad Astra is a sci-fi film project that stars Brad Pitt as Roy McBride, an astronaut who travels to the outer edges of the solar system in an attempt to find his missing father and, you know, save Earth.
The film is helmed by James Gray, working off a script he co-wrote with Ethan Gross. Gray wrote and directed The Lost City of Z, the 2013 romantic drama The Immigrant (which featured Pitt’s Allied co-star Marion Cotillard), the 2007 Mark Wahlberg crime drama We Own the Night, going back to his debut in the 1994 Tim Roth crime drama Little Odessa.
Ad Astra Trailer
We have a new trailer for Ad Astra that gives us a better look at the film's plot than ever before. It seems that Roy isn't just looking for...
- 2/9/2017
- Den of Geek
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