Project Hail Mary
March 15, 2026 in theaters
July 3, 2026 on Amazon Prime Video
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 threatening to destroy Earth and humanity itself.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the duo behind The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -- a striking tonal departure into grounded, high-stakes science fiction.
THE VERDICT
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Project Hail Mary trades conventional space-opera spectacle for something more intimate: a lone science teacher waking up with no memory, then piecing together why humanity's survival depends on him. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller -- best known for reinventing genres through animation and comedy -- bring that same inventive precision to a grounded, high-stakes register, with Ryan Gosling anchoring the film as a scientist forced to solve an impossible problem alone, light years from home. The mystery-box structure rewards patience: memory returns in fragments, the science stays plausible, and the first-contact premise builds toward genuine emotional stakes rather than spectacle for its own sake. Adapted from Andy Weir's novel, it's a big-idea sci-fi survival story that earns its scale -- and exactly why it belongs alongside the app's other UFO Files entries: a story about discovery, communication, and what's worth risking everything for.
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