In an exciting atmosphere, this movie embodies the life story of the great astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man walking on the moon, and the atmosphere in which he decides to do such a dangerous mission, such as the obstacles and the sacrifies both of Neil himself and NASA face in achieving such a dangerous mission.
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September 13, 2018
First Man is a technically accomplished story of how far one man will go to avoid handling his emotions, dressed up as the story of mankind's mission to the moon.
September 11, 2018
Chazelle has made a grippingly nitty-gritty procedural that sees the space race as a window into Armstrong's unknowable mind, an inner space as mysterious as the outer one he blasts himself into.
September 10, 2018
In making the story intimate, closely-focused, and human-oriented, Chazelle reminds us in First Man just what an amazing accomplishment walking on the moon was.
September 12, 2018
Thrilling when it escapes the gravity of drab living rooms and offices, First Man does an admirable job of complexifying a well-told tale.
September 10, 2018
Whatever its missteps, "First Man" represents a principled attempt to reconsider what heroism looks and sounds like, to think beyond the reductive rah-rah parameters that have led so many to confuse jingoism with art.
September 12, 2018
Chazelle and Ryan Gosling follow the exuberance of La La Land with a project both bigger and smaller.
September 12, 2018
The film can be best summed up as "bland": with bland performances in a bland looking film, it is blandly entertaining, and blandly inspiring
September 12, 2018
Smart, incisive, remarkably pared-to-the bone and wary of easy epiphanies.
September 12, 2018
It's an epic, ambitious film, but it ends just shy of true greatness.
September 11, 2018
A viceral, thrilling experience expertly directed and acted.
September 11, 2018
The moon was hard-earned and so was this movie. It's a stupendous feat.
September 10, 2018
As Chazelle oscillates between documenting NASA's many missteps and peering behind the curtain of the Armstrongs' domestic lives, he conjures the type of cinematic high any filmgoer has been chasing since they first stepped inside a theatre.
