Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, ...

Ryan Gosling plays an astronaut in this derivative, carefully manufactured crowd-pleaser; Project Hail Mary doesn't feel like storytelling so much as mechanical engineering.

Grace skips Earth to rescue Rocky, sends the Taumoeba cure home via four Beetle probes, and ends up teaching alien children on Erid.