I’ve got a review up at Critic Speak http://www.criticspeak.com/review-the-martian/ of The Martian, which is currently dominating the box office and making a big cultural splash. I went in expecting a more serious film, not quite on par with Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a meaty sci-fi experience with inspiring heroic elements. The heroism comes together in the end, yet by that point the film’s unrelenting sarcastic tone had worn me out and mostly turned me off.