#38. The Martian (2015)
April 2, 2021
– Director: Ridley Scott
– Stacker score: 88.4
– Metascore: 80
– IMDb user rating: 8.0
– Runtime: 144 minutes
Based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir, this similarly successful film opens on Mars and dives right into the action, with a massive storm separating an astronaut (Matt Damon) from his team. Presumed dead and thereby abandoned, the astronaut finds himself alone on a foreign planet, where he must learn how to survive using the sparest of means.