Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | 2026 | USA | 2h36m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
Please note there will be a brief 10-minute intermission around the half-way point of the film.
PROJECT HAIL MARY is big, expensive studio science fiction made with real conviction. Adapted from Andy Weir’s novel by Drew Goddard, it starts with a strong hook: a schoolteacher wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or why he’s there, and gradually pieces together the fact that he may be Earth’s last chance.
PROJECT HAIL MARY is a real crowd-pleaser, but it’s crowd-pleasing science fiction made for people who actually care about the details. The film throws itself fully into astrobiology, orbital mechanics, physics, engineering and the day-to-day reality of trying to stay alive in deep space.
What I like about the film is its seriousness about how space actually works. If INTERSTELLAR earned its reputation by grounding its spectacle in real scientific thinking, with physicist Kip Thorne helping shape that side of the film, PROJECT HAIL MARY belongs in that same conversation. It has that same respect for the material conditions of space travel, for the limits of the human body, for problem-solving as drama, and for the idea that scientific precision can be cinematic rather than burdensome. Andy Weir has spoken repeatedly about wanting his science to feel plausible rather than hand-waved, and that commitment is all over this story.
This is also the kind of science fiction film that still believes wonder matters. It isn’t grim for the sake of it, and it doesn’t confuse seriousness with emotional flatness. The size is there, the runtime is there, and the stakes are certainly there, but the film’s real pleasure comes from clarity, momentum and the sense that discovery itself can still carry a big screen story. In a period where a lot of studio sci-fi leans heavily on gloom, PROJECT HAIL MARY goes in another direction and that’s a large part of its appeal.
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