'Project Hail Mary' is a smart piece of sci-fi filmmaking anchored by a reliably charismatic Ryan Gosling becoming best buds with an alien spider-rock.

Author Andy Weir has single-handedly shaken up how moviegoers imagine astronauts. For a wide swathe of sci-fi movies, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Right Stuff, Gravity, Apollo 13, Interstellar, ...