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Project Hail Mary

Play trailer 2:43 Poster for Project Hail Mary PG-13 Mar 2026 2h 36m Sci-Fi Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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94% Tomatometer 409 Reviews 95% Popcornmeter 10,000+ Verified Ratings
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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Critics Consensus

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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One stellar Gosling + one arachnid-ish alien + one Hail Mary mission = lightning in a spaceship.

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Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) May 7
Everybody's going to love this movie. Go to Full Review
Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Apr 17
3.5/5
At 2½ hours plus, it also has its longueurs but there are some spectacularly beautiful moments and Gosling makes an engaging companion who makes something poignant as well as funny out of Grace’s unwelcome elevation to hero status. Go to Full Review
Dwight Brown DwightBrownInk.com Apr 17
3/4
Praise Gosling for carrying the film and taking inquisitive folks along with him. Go to Full Review
Vera Wylde Council of Geeks 2d
With very few exceptions the changes (from the book) are not only defensible, they're probably in the best interest of the movie. Go to Full Review
Tyler Strandberg Pop Culture Leftovers 2d
Aside from a slightly uneven opening, Project Hail Mary proves to be a thrilling and remarkably successful leap from page to screen. Go to Full Review
John Serba Decider May 18
It’s exemplary visual storytelling, with crisp and efficient editing enabling the narrative to segue smoothly back and forth between two timelines. Go to Full Review
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Jessai 3h An emotional narrative and visual masterpiece. Amaze, amaze, amaze! See more Michael 5h one of the best films of the year, full of hope and great spectacle for the heart and soul See more Mary T 8h It was a good movie and worth the money. We just felt that the story was a little too long, too much lull time. See more Jonathan O 12h Fantastic. This is what movies are meant to be. Humor. Suspense. Love. Real tension. See more Brian 12h Typa movie you can only watch twice See more misha 16h This movie saved my life I love you nerdy boy failure Ryan gosling and rock James Ortiz I would die for them I’m being so for real right now I’ve seen this movie fifteen times and it genuinely just gets better every time I would kill someone to have it theater run extended See more Read all reviews
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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
Release Date (Streaming)
May 12, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA)
$318.3M
Runtime
2h 36m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos