Glowing with a galaxy-sized heart and the highest praise possible, Project Hail Mary is the kind of instant classic offering an undeniable sense of spirit and satisfying entertainment that will make someone fall in love with science fiction. If they already championed the pleasures of sci-fi, Lord and Miller’s film will add more confirmation to that well-placed fondness.
Read MoreThe Zone of Interest doesn’t go there, and it wasn’t going to. The cold and taciturn performances from Freidel and Hüller are designed to not create sympathy for the subjects, which is perfectly fine. Rather this film was just going to sit there and listen. That’s the experience it was aiming for, and, in doing so, it participates in a layer of its own “how could they.” The trouble is, like the Nazis portrayed in the film, the answers to that question are “quite easily” and “quite comfortably.” Because their needles don’t move, neither do yours against its painful pace.
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