Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable ...

When I read Project Hail Mary back in 2021, no one knew anything about it. There was no Wikipedia plot summary. No YouTube breakdowns. No spoilers at all. It was just me, the book, and my imagination.

The science is accessible and Ryan Gosling is a superb Everyman in the excellent space adventure "Project Hail Mary," based on Andy Weir's novel.

Based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, in Project Hail Mary Gosling plays the nominatively-determined Ryland Grace (not the Ryland bit), a middle-school teacher who sits on the edge of his ...

Part buddy comedy, part hard sci-fi epic, and it somehow works. Part buddy comedy, part hard sci-fi epic, and it somehow works. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every ...

A longstanding newsroom joke says that most trend pieces are born from journalists trying something new, enjoying it, and assuming they’ve discovered something fresh, important, and popular: Surely ...

With a book as meaty, science-focused and rambling as Project Hail Mary, the task of making it an accessible sci-fi romp is not an easy one, but the dialogue, pacing and even cuts to the source ...

Ryan Gosling plays a man stranded on a spaceship in the new film “Project Hail Mary,” opening in theaters on March 20. His character Ryland Grace wakes up from a coma alone in space, with ...

At almost every turn, Project Hail Mary attempts to convince you that it is groundbreaking, innovative filmmaking. But in actuality, the movie lands as a grand act of cinematic recycling – the fusing ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's lone-astronaut saga wants to be "Interstellar" meets "E.T.," but it's too long and too cutely formulaic. There are clichés that critics go back to, and when I ...

Author Andy Weir has single-handedly shaken up how moviegoers imagine astronauts. For a wide swatch of sci-fi movies, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Right Stuff, Gravity, Apollo 13, Interstellar, to ...