pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
68
from 290 comments
COMMUNITY
90
1 person
YOURS
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FUN
56
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
88
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Not a rating. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve — shown next to the community score above, never mixed into it.
Read from 290 comments (222 from Reddit, 41 from Metacritic, 27 from TMDB reviews) — 54 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 moment that made people jump, 3 that landed as a blow, 2 that gave people chills, 3 that got a real laugh.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“The pacing of the movie was otherwise great, but those wide angle shots should have been given room to breathe.”
Meph616 · Reddit ↗
“Didn’t think that a talking rock would make me cry quite a few times but here we are.”
ICumCoffee · Reddit ↗
“it didn’t feel like a 2h36m movie”
ICumCoffee · Reddit ↗
“I never got bored”
ICumCoffee · Reddit ↗
“The scene with Rocky offering his fuel to Grace had me SOBBING, it was so touching and was incredibly well done.”
Dragons_Are_Real · Reddit ↗
“The scene of him just barging into Grace's ship in his wobbly little hamster ball had my entire theater cackling”
PseudocodeRed · Reddit ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“Project Hail Mary is a movie that believes it’s possible to save the world. It dares to hope. And that’s more beautiful than all the stars in the sky.”
Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence · 100
“It will lift up and squeeze your heart, crack you up with laughter, and give you a sense of hope and wonder in a way that few movies have been able to inspire. Lord & Miller have created something truly magical, and we'll be talking about this one for decades to come.”
Ethan Anderton, Slashfilm · 100
“Funny and dramatic when it needs to be as well as exceptionally rousing throughout, the movie perfectly captures the story of human resilience and interstellar bromance that Andy Weir’s 2021 brilliant novel did so well.”
Brian Truitt, USA Today · 100
“It’s a masterpiece of a family popcorn movie, with eye-popping hand-crafted production design and outstanding creature design and puppetry work. This is the kind of movie that could have been made in the era of moon landings and space shuttles, when the general public found science trustworthy and wondrous.”
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“For all its bells and whistles, “Project Hail Mary” is also a lovely, bittersweet character study, a pas de deux between man and alien that elicits a surprising amount of emotions by the time the credits roll.”
Odie Henderson, Boston Globe · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 23 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“The pacing of the movie was otherwise great, but those wide angle shots should have been given room to breathe.”
Meph616▲ 8,397about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Didn’t think that a talking rock would make me cry quite a few times but here we are.”
ICumCoffee▲ 5,824about 0–100% inread it ↗
“it didn’t feel like a 2h36m movie”
ICumCoffee▲ 5,824about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I never got bored”
ICumCoffee▲ 5,824about 0–100% inread it ↗
94
Avg Energy
50%
Rewatch %
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from one rating — these move a lot until a few more land