When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off ...
The film that follows — flatly repetitive with far too many wildly misguided and self-serious moments — is turgid from start ...
* lights cigarette, tosses match, walks away from explosion * ...
Ryan Gosling plays an astronaut in this derivative, carefully manufactured crowd-pleaser; Project Hail Mary doesn't feel like storytelling so much as mechanical engineering.