Project Hail Mary review: This Andy Weir movie adaptation is everything you hoped it would be

So I’m aware I’m speaking anecdotally when I say that it seems like anticipation for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s science fiction novel Project Hail Mary is unusually high and unusually anxious. I’ve lost track of how many people over the past few months, on finding out I’m a film critic, have told me they’re really looking forward to Project Hail Mary, but they’re nervous about whether it can stick the landing. I haven’t had this many people pouring movie-related anxiety on me since the week before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace came out.