Movie Review: Matt Damon in ‘The Martian,’ marooned but not alone

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Manhola Dargis
Matt Damon stars as a stranded astronaut in “The Martian,” directed by Ridley Scott. Credit 20th Century Fox Film
A space western and a blissed-out cosmic high, “The Martian” stars Matt Damon as an American astronaut who, like a latter-day Robinson Crusoe, learns to survive on his own island of despair. At once epic and intimate, it involves a dual journey into outer and inner space, a trip that takes you into that immensity called the universe and deep into the equally vast landscape of a single consciousness. [link]


“The Martian” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Life, death and science.