Put the Movies on Ozempic

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.

I’d been warned that “Project Hail Mary,” about an accidental astronaut trying to save humanity with the help of an alien who’s basically a boulder with limbs, spanned more than two and a half hours. But somewhere around the two-hour mark, I became convinced that I’d heard wrong.

The central relationship seemed to have run its, er, rocky course. I felt like I’d been in space longer than the crew of Artemis II. I’d laughed, misted up, savored Ryan Gosling’s sweetness and snark and then savored them some more. Surely, the movie was ready to release me.

Not even close. A........

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