A couple struggle to learn the truth about the origins of their unborn child-- a demonic entity that emerges from the body.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
A boy named Max experiences adventure within his own house while staying home alone.
“To be universal, you have to get specific”: while the film does not attempt to provoke discussions about queerness or race, those watching closely may find something resonant in Sorrentino’s love letter to the Naples of his youth.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.
With a quirky outline, Project Hail Mary stays within the bounds of human language and imperial fantasy.
