'The Martian,' 'The Walk' and other new movies, reviewed - Washington Post

In this week’s new releases, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars in “The Martian,” and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays French high-wire walker Philippe Petit in “The Walk.”

★★★½ “The Martian” (PG-13) “... at a time when a kid can get busted for bringing a DIY clock to school, presidential candidates seriously debate the value of vaccinations and even the Pope can’t win over global warming skeptics, the problem-solving valorized in ‘The Martian’ provides a simultaneously stirring and spirited example of how cool science can be. As NASA-Hollywood plots go, this one is worth lapping up like all the water on Mars.” – Ann Hornaday

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