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Project Hail Mary

Play trailer 2:43 Poster for Project Hail Mary PG-13 In Theaters Mar 20 2h 36m Sci-Fi Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) 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... but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
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Project Hail Mary

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A visually dazzling space odyssey that's carried along effortlessly by the gravitational pull of Ryan Gosling at his most winning, Project Hail Mary is a near-miraculous fusion of smarts and heart.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses 5h
If you had told me that the feel good movie in the otherwise suffocating bleakness of early 2026 would be "Ken Meets Geodude in Space", I would have not believed you. And yet here we are, and Project Hail Mary is all of these things, and so very much more Go to Full Review
G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle 10h
4/4
It’s a masterpiece of a family popcorn movie, with eye-popping hand-crafted production design and outstanding creature design and puppetry work. Go to Full Review
David Fear Rolling Stone 1d
Project Hail Mary has found someone who can make all of it truly work. Gosling can actually sell us on an everyman thrust into extraordinary circumstances while still beguiling us with old-school snap, crackle, and pop. Go to Full Review
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 2h
A sugar-coated and harmless sci-fi adventure that's more whimsical and funny than moving, powerful or thrilling. Ryan Gosling shines with his charisma and provides a modicum of poignancy that can't be found within the screenplay. Go to Full Review
Simon Foster Screen-Space (Substack) 3h
2/5
PROJECT HAIL MARY colours in a vast effects canvas but offers little more than intellectual infantilism. With Astronaut Ken as our self-taught pilot, it may be the dumbest deep-space adventure ever made. Go to Full Review
Dave Lee Dave Lee Down Under 5h
3.5/5
A good addition to the "science fact" spacey movie / "sad boi in space" genre that I’ve been a big fan of in the last decade or so. Go to Full Review
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Movie Info

Synopsis Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) 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... but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
Director
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Producer
Amy Pascal, Ryan Gosling, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Aditya Sood, Rachel O'Connor, Andy Weir
Screenwriter
Drew Goddard
Distributor
Amazon MGM Studios
Production Co
Pascal Pictures, General Admission, Waypoint Entertainment, Lord Miller
Rating
PG-13 (Suggestive References|Some Thematic Material)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 20, 2026, Wide
Runtime
2h 36m