Project Hail Mary (2026)
Kernel Score: 96% · 5,471 ratings
Genres: Science Fiction, Adventure
Released: 2026-03-15
Runtime: 157 minutes
Overview
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
Fresh Kernels Review
96% · “Astonishing!” — Gary Alcock
There is a moment early in “Project Hail Mary” — Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s ravishing, enormously moving adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel — when Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes alone on a spaceship with no memory, no bearings and no company save for a pair of desiccated corpses strapped in beside him. The camera lingers on Gosling’s face as confusion curdles into something closer to existential terror, and in that sustained close-up you can feel the entire film declare its ambitions: this will not be a movie content merely to hurtle through space. It intends to sit with you in the… Read the full review
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Cast
- Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace
- James Ortiz as Rocky (voice)
- Sandra Hüller as Eva Stratt
- Lionel Boyce as Carl
- Milana Vayntrub as Olesya Ilyukhina
- Ken Leung as Yao
- Priya Kansara as Mary (voice)
- Mia Soteriou as Dr. Browne
- Annelle Olaleye as Olivia
- Maya Eva Hosein as Rekha