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By Tony Baker (58) for Tony Baker Comedy (58) on 19 Nov 2018

Ryan Gosling is good at just being low-key all the time. The emotion is internal, it's just the subtle looks on the face…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Alternate Ending (372) on 19 Nov 2018

The film weaponises boredom: Neil feels a certain dreariness in the years between missions, and so do we, and that is the whole of the movie…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 11 Nov 2018

First Man' takes flight as a stellar history of the first man on the moon…

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By Jorge Iván Morales (20) for Cine Premiere (538) on 09 Nov 2018

First Man is the most solid film in Chazelle's career in that it takes the least amount of risks…

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By Hugo Hernández Valdivia (119) for Cinexcepción (119) on 09 Nov 2018

Chazelle delivers a round film that works within the prerogatives of several genres. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By David Ocadiz (19) for Cinergética (22) on 08 Nov 2018

First Man is a film filled with great intentions, but awful execution. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Aaron Leggo (14) for Sloths and Movies (14) on 07 Nov 2018

As Chazelle peels back the layers of Neil's personality to expose his anguished headspace, the director simply has very little insight to share…

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By Michelle Kisner (77) for The Movie Sleuth (77) on 06 Nov 2018

It's this focus on the little moments that sets this apart from other space exploration films--the idea that behind all these historical events…

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By Erik Henriksen (35) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 06 Nov 2018

First Man bears the familiar curse of the biopic-it somehow feels both overlong and unsatisfying-and never quite escapes the shadow of The…

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By Douglas Davidson (49) for Elements of Madness (30) on 05 Nov 2018

[D]irector Damien Chazelle sheds all pretense as he reteams with Ryan Gosling to explore Neil Armstrong, the man, not the legend, who took…

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By Sharronda Williams (83) for Pay Or Wait (83) on 05 Nov 2018

The movie is okay, but I wanted a lot from the film...I don't want to take away from what they did, but I just couldn't get into it…

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By Raquel Stecher (32) for Quelle Movies (12) on 04 Nov 2018

Puts the audience in the spacecraft and on the moon for a thrilling experience.... also a reserved yet poignant character study…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 04 Nov 2018

With the visual veracity of a documentary, Damien Chazelle's superb chronicle of the Space Race that lead to the 1969 Moon landing is a sterling…

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By J. Don Birnam (36) for Splash Report (34) on 02 Nov 2018

With its effective combination of a moving personal story with a stunning human triumph, achieved through dedicated filmmaking, one could fairly…

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By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

Like the chill of space, the result can be a bit cold to the touch…

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By Brian Gill (37) for Mad About Movies Podcast (98) on 31 Oct 2018

Chazelle's direction is technically perfect and the cast is as magnificent as one might expect but the cold, detached approach to its subject…

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By Matt Ward (84) for Cinematic Considerations (84) on 31 Oct 2018

A visually impressive film, First Man is worthy of an outing to the theater to catch Chazelle and [cinematographer Linus] Sandgren's work on…

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By Cameron Frew (70) for Movie Corner (14) on 31 Oct 2018

The film is many things; magical, surprisingly intimate, remarkably suspenseful…

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By Kent Garrison (58) for Mad About Movies Podcast (98) on 31 Oct 2018

The film proves that Chazelle is a legitimate force to be reckoned with in any genre and provides some of the most breathtaking sequences in…

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By Bob Chipman (153) for Geek (137) on 30 Oct 2018

It's honestly hard to imagine any other actor of [Gosling's] generation so realistically embodying the restrained dialed-back countenance of…

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