Obvious comparisons will be drawn between Project Hail Mary and other space survival movies like Gravity or The Martian, the latter also based on a sci-fi novel by the same author, Andy Weir. Others might call it Cast Away in space. But if we’re going with simplistic movie kinships, I prefer the marriage of two other outstanding Ryan Gosling performances, as a schoolteacher in Half Nelson and an astronaut in First Man — both jobs that connect to his character in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s soaring interplanetary buddy movie.
The first feature in 12 years from co-directors Lord and Miller — whose collaborations include The Lego Movie, the Spider-Verse films, 21 Jump Street and its sequel — the new film shows their facility for buoyant humor and heartfelt emotion very much intact. Even if Project Hail Mary at times leans into the sentiment to an almost saccharine degree, the movie’s natural sweetness is disarming.
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