Phil Lord and Chris Miller‘s Project Hail Mary is, at its core, the story of a guy who wakes up alone in space and has to befriend a rock. It’s also one of the most purely enjoyable and uplifting movies of the last decade or so, imbued with very un-2026 optimism and near-relentless levity by the directors, from a screenplay by Drew Goddard (adapted from Andy Weir’s novel, like another Goddard script, for 2015’s also awesome The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott). In the lead role of reluctant non-astronaut Ryland Grace is Ryan Gosling, whose performance is a career milestone, proving that he’s one of a tiny number of actors/flat-out movie stars who could carry an entire…