Ad Astra is concurrently simple and ambitious in its purpose. It is the sort of film that might have been set anywhere and just happens to be set in space.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would have been better had the final act showed the same understanding of what was working as everything that preceded it.
In Fabric loses us in Strickland's desire to invoke purposeful weirdness and wins us back with fleeting moments of promise in which clarity seems possible.