Running time: 157 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic material and suggestive references). In theaters March 20. Now entering the pantheon of lost-and-alone movies is “Project Hail Mary,” a hugely ...

In a cinematic landscape often dominated by dystopian futures, raunchy storylines and grim visions of the universe’s fate, “Project Hail Mary” offers something refreshingly different: hope, optimism ...