The science is accessible and Ryan Gosling is a superb Everyman in the excellent space adventure "Project Hail Mary," based on Andy Weir's novel.

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