I would go with The Martian over the others, with Interstellar coming in second and Gravity third.
I did not like Gravity all that much. For pure spectacle, it was pretty amazing, but the story wasn't that impressive. And, while I like George Clooney in some movies, I didn't in this. He was just "George Clooney" in it, not an actual character, at least imo. I didn't really emotionally connect with anything. Still, it looked great.
Interstellar was pretty good. I liked probably 80% of it. The ending didn't really knock my socks off. I think I was loving the hard science fiction of it, and then the ending goes into more metaphysical elements. That's not bad at all, but it just didn't wrap up in the way I wanted, needed, or maybe expected? I think I need to go back and watch it again, because I feel like my opinion on it may be half formed or could change if I viewed it another time.
I loved The Martian. My husband and I went to watch it the first weekend it was in theaters. I was viewing it as someone who hadn't read the book, and he was coming to it as someone who read and enjoyed the book. While he said things were changed, he told me that he understood why they changed or cut what they did. I honestly really liked it. I liked the humor and the survival story. In the end, I think Matt Damon did the best at his part and making me connect with him, his emotional reactions and the situation that he found himself in. It was a big movie with big special effects, but it worked for me as a simple story about a guy trapped on Mars, more so than Sandra Bullock being trapped in space in Gravity did, for example.
Long post, but that's my basic overview of all three. There are space movies I definitely like more than these, like Moon, but I understand that you were only asking about these specifically. :)
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