“I put the ‘not’ in ‘astronaut,’” pleads Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), trying to argue his way out of salvaging humanity. Like another savior, he would take a way out if there were one. But he knows he’s been chosen. And that destiny can’t be denied. The angel Gabriel might possibly cross one’s mind during “Project Hail Mary,” but the film—directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, writers of “T...