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By John Nugent (191) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 10 Sep 2018

Astonishing. The definitive take on a monumental moment in history — without ever losing sight of the man underneath the visor…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2018

What Chazelle has made, in other words, is a nitty-gritty procedural that treats the NASA odyssey as a window into Armstrong’s unknowable…

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By Oliver Whitney (71) for ScreenCrush (954) on 10 Sep 2018

May be gorgeous to look at, butthe film fails to capture how awe-inspiringsomething as epic as a trip to the moonmust have been…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 10 Sep 2018

A viceral, thrilling experience expertly directed and acted…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 10 Sep 2018

More than a third of its runtime is frustratingly lifeless, mimicking the repressed, impassive psyche of Ryan Gosling’s astronaut, and when…

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By Jamie Broadnax (55) for Black Girl Nerds (256) on 10 Sep 2018

First Man provides an experience for the viewer that goes beyond just telling the story of Armstrong but seeing and feeling it through his…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 10 Sep 2018

First Man might be the most grounded space movie ever made — grounded in the tension between technology that’s almost laughably fragile…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 2018

It is immersive, engaging and dizzying filmmaking…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Nerdist (550) on 09 Sep 2018

In making the story intimate, closely-focused, and human-oriented, Chazelle reminds us in First Man just what an amazing accomplishment walking…

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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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