Throughout the course of this long but never dull film, Mark makes for an affable and centered lead character...

Anchored by another great turn from Matt Damon, The Martian mixes smarts, laughs, weird character bits and tension on a huge canvas.

Like all Hollywood science fiction, it is indebted to visual rhetoric effectively invented by Kubrick: the giant planetary curvature looming into the upper or lower half of the screen...

…aldrig har det väl varit så hisnande att se någon odla rotfrukter i avföring.