First, in the plainest language, before we get to anything else, Project Hail Mary is a fantastic film. It does right by its source material, and it also easily stands on its own for folks who haven’t ...

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Deeply hopeful, spectacularly produced, and equally adept at laughter and tears, "Project Hail Mary" is the best new movie to ...

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"Project Hail Mary," in theaters March 20, champions the joy of learning in a humorous take on the scientific method and apocalyptic space thrillers.

Ryan Gosling’s new science fiction movie shows an astronaut who saves the world and dies to self. Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in Project Hail Mary.

Ryan Gosling leads Project Hail Mary, a satisfying space odyssey that adds extraterrestrial wrinkles to Andy Weir's wonkiness.

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My boys all look like me. And I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities,” William Wolfe said out loud in a video now posted online. “I want my boys to grow up ...

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As a spillover of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) across many fields, questions about the nature and forms of intelligence have acquired new urgency. In many ways, this has revived an ...