Predicting The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2026's Biggest Movies

20. Project Hail Mary (95%)

Project Hail Mary will be the first directorial effort from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller since they were fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story mid-production in 2017, though they've kept themselves plenty busy since with their work on Sony's animated Spider-Verse movies.

Their next film, however, is a live-action sci-fi outing based on a novel penned by The Martian author Andy Weir.

The trailer looks fantastic, but beyond this, Weir's novel has an even higher Goodreads rating than The Martian, which was, of course, adapted into a Best Picture-nominated smash hit back in 2015.

Drew Goddard, who adapted The Martian to the screen, is back doing the very same for Project Hail Mary.

In addition to all this and the appealing central two-hander of Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller, early test screening reports have been extremely positive, causing some to believe that Sony could even have an honest-to-God awards player on their hands here.

With all this in mind, it'd be shocking if Project Hail Mary wasn't one of the year's most acclaimed films, blockbuster or not.