Enjoyed this one more than The Martian, partially because of the commitment to making a really excellent-looking film, and partially because Ryan Gosling is just congenitally more capable of selling this kind of thing than Matt Damon ever was.

Project Hail Mary does, however, suffer from of the defects inherent to the source material. Andy Weir is, uh, not a character-oriented writer, and Gosling’s character seems to have been given jokes instead of a personality. This results in the kind…