Project Hail Mary
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… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
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Ranking: 43/266.
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A film adaptation of a book I loved that’s actually good. Huh!
Ryan Gosling does great in what is often a solo act. Early on I thought the film was trying a bit too hard to be funny, but at some point it started working and I enjoyed it.
There are lots of parallels to The Martian, Arrival, and so on, but it’s a sufficiently different mash-up of the concepts that it’s not a problem.
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2026 in 2026
Films released in 2026 that I watched in 2026.
4 films
Watched films ranked
Every film I’ve watched since I started logging, ranked.
Obviously super subjective, and subject to change often and arbitrarily.
266 films
Watched in the cinema
Films I’ve seen on the big screen, not my little-er screen.
7 films