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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Sep 2018

Chazelle seems to be trying to both uphold and transcend the narrative template established by astronaut dramas like “The Right Stuff”…

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By Angie Han (120) for Mashable (91) on 09 Sep 2018

First Man doesn't just show us what it looks like to go to the moon. It considers how it must have felt to go to the moon…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 09 Sep 2018

Chazelle broadens his horizons with this superbly detailed account of the Moon landing. Gosling and especially Foy are out of this world…

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By Jason Guerrasio (61) for Business Insider (73) on 09 Sep 2018

It's not an astronaut movie in the vein of The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, where the Space Race missions are the main focus…

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By David Crow (142) for Den of Geek (424) on 08 Sep 2018

The finale is of such magnitude, especially when juxtaposed by the chilled silence of space, that it really is akin to walking on the moon;…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Sep 2018

An intimate epic which is as fascinated by the small steps as it is exhilarated by the giant leap…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Sep 2018

However inward the hero may be, the movie around him is thrillingly outward, not to mention poundingly onward and relentlessly upward…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 05 Sep 2018

It runs long, with restlessness setting in during the midsection, but Chazelle handles the climax - the moon landing itself - with breathless,…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Sep 2018

A giant leap even for the youngest-ever Best Director victor, Damien Chazelle’s technically astonishing First Man is a poetic non-blockbuster…

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By Diana Dabrowska (8) for Cinema Scope (405) on 04 Sep 2018

Armstrong's trip becomes a means for emotional emancipation, a backdrop for an intimate, universal story about dealing with trauma…

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By Mara Reinstein (308) for Us Weekly (308) on 03 Sep 2018

It's a special film that keeps you white-knuckled about the outcome of one of the most well-documented days in human history…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 02 Sep 2018

First Man is the first Damien Chazelle movie I've liked and there are times I liked it quite a lot…

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By Paul O'callaghan (20) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2018

Damien Chazelle is clearly in awe of the collective efforts it took to propel Neil Armstrong to the moon, but he remains ambivalent about whether…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Sep 2018

There are indeed stretches of the film—particularly its gripping and just a little miserable opening sequence—when it soars (argh, sorry)…

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By Ashley Menzel (79) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 31 Aug 2018

While I felt the film did struggle with the emotional aspects of the storyline, I really can't find a film that was so effective in its portrayal…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 31 Aug 2018

It’s very much its own thing – part harrowing and exhilarating space epic on a grand canvas and part intimate character study in miniature…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 29 Aug 2018

A captivating and suspenseful thriller, which is given a powerful whoosh of added poignancy by the story of Armstrong's family life…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Aug 2018

This is a confident but pretty bland technical exercise…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 29 Aug 2018

The film reconstitutes our taciturn hero as a man riven with grief after the death of his daughter...It's a bold move and seems to inform Gosling's…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC.com (1,500) on 29 Aug 2018

And yet, as restrained as First Man is, this riveting, exhaustively researched and utterly believable film manages to shake you, take your…

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