Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers.
There is a scene early in Project Hail Mary that tells you everything about the kind of film you are watching. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a middle-school science teacher who emerges from a medically induced coma aboard an interstellar spacecraft with only the scantiest memory of how he got there, discovers his two crewmates dead in their pods. He could ignore them. Instead, he holds a small funeral ceremony for a man and a woman he barely knew. Before he releases their bodies into space, he lingers on the family photographs each of them brought along for the journey.
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