The Astronaut (2025) (original) (raw)
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA�s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth.
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA�s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth. (less)
Director: Jess Varley
Writer: Jess Varley
Starring: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, Ivana Milicevic, Macy Gray, Reza Diako
Producer: Brad Fuller
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Review by Brian Orndorf, October 15, 2025
5 / 10
Writer/director Jess Varley is after something specific with �The Astronaut,� but she doesn�t have a clear idea how to get there. It hopes to be a chiller, at least until it isn�t one, but the material doesn�t have much appreciation for originality, delivering the usual in terms of tight psychological spaces and perceived physical threats around an isolated setting. But there�s noticeable drive to make this endeavor snap to cinematic life, watching Varley oversee music and editing achievements that hope to sell the intensity of a picture that�s mostly flat. �The Astronaut� is headed somewhere, ...read more...
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