"Project Hail Mary," starring Ryan Gosling as a scientist named Ryland Grace who befriends an alien in space, is already powering up the box office.

The best Easter egg in Project Hail Mary comes when Ryan Gosling's Ryland Grace meets an alien and tries to use a Steven Spielberg movie moment to communicate.

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off of an elaborate puppet manned by James Ortiz,

The film version of Project Hail Mary works surprisingly well as a prequel to one of the best sci-fi movies to emerge from the 2000s.

Executed with incredible craft and style and a whole lot of heart, “Project Hail Mary” verges on the edge of being too saccharinely sweet.

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind is not alone in the universe.