The cross-species friendship powers this touching film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It has been described as 'E.T.' meets 'Interstellar' but that doesn't hint at its humanity.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — To describe “Project Hail Mary” as “Interstellar” meets “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” is reductive, but not entirely inaccurate. The Ryan Gosling-led film combines an intimate, ...

He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...