Reviews for Project Hail Mary are in, and they're overwhelmingly positive – meaning the sci-fi blockbuster looks to be the first must-see film of the year.
The movie stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a schoolteacher turned unlikely astronaut tasked with saving humanity from an alien microbe that is dimming the sun. In the deep reaches of space, he meets a new friend to help him with his mission: Rocky the alien.
"To write more about the pleasures and pains of Project Hail Mary would be a disservice to what’s most entertaining and satisfying about the film: watching it unfold, enjoying the process, accepting the mission, asking the big questions," reads IndieWire's A- review.
"Project Hail Mary might blow past a two-hour runtime and yet there’s rarely a dull moment with all the problem-solving, earnest irreverence and unabashed commitment to imbuing life and wit into every molecule of the story," says the Associated Press in a 3.5/4 star review.
"With Gosling and [Sandra] Hüller to the fore, Lord and Miller have delivered a cosmic adventure with hope in its heart and a twinkle in its eye. It’s the science-fiction blockbuster we need in these fractious times," says Time Out in a 4-star review.
However, not everyone is convinced. "Even with his magnetism set to hyperdrive, Gosling can’t make this wannabe-feel good film dazzle the way it wants to," says Esquire UK.
"Project Hail Mary wants to be the kind of "great escape we need right now," and I have no doubt that many will hail it as one. So forgive me if I say that it’s not a very good movie," says Variety.
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