20 Best Movies Of 2026 (So Far)
8. Project Hail Mary
Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times: Ryan Gosling's in town (or, more correctly, space) with the feel-good movie of the year, a touching, hilarious sci-fi adventure about saving the world and the friends we make along the way.
Project Hail Mary finds Gosling as a science teacher with amnesia who must unravel the mystery surrounding Earth's dying sun, all the while forming a bond with a compassionate alien stowaway as his memory slowly starts to return.
With brilliant visual flair and Gosling at his charming best front-and-centre, Phil Lord and Chris Miller's sci-fi thriller flows with impeccable pace, heartfelt emotion, and a profoundly hopeful worldview that makes its end-of-the-world drama extremely easy to tackle.
Within a year populated by gritty dramas and epic fantasies, dark social satires and moving relationship stories, Project Hail Mary is a bold standout that will surely go down as a modern feel-good classic.