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First Man

First Man

2018
Drama, History
2h 21m
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. (imdb)

First Man

2018
Drama, History
2h 21m
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Rated 20 Nov 2018
70
53rd
Quick we are doing a 60s period piece round up every single actor who would look comfortable saying negro. This entire movie is carried by the sound design.
Rated 13 Mar 2019
5
57th
Most of my score is for the space/rocket/aeronautics sequences, which mix terror and artistry into something that at its best is downright (intentionally) nauseating. Everything outside of those scenes was as dull as dishwater. I could flip on my TV now and find 90s sitcom reruns more dramatically compelling than the household drama in this film. So overall I can respect some scenes but dunno what film douchebags on my Twitter feed crying “masterpiece!” a few months back were on about.
Rated 27 Feb 2019
69
60th
If you ever found yourself wondering what was going on in the homes of the astronauts while watching The Right Stuff, than you clearly didn't enjoy watching The Right Stuff as much as I did. Bafflingly mixes Apollo 13 with Rabbit Hole.
Rated 10 Nov 2018
80
86th
Could so easily have been yet another run-of-the-mill biopic, but everything flows along very nicely, and Chazelle makes almost every scene in the film pretty riveting. Also, I'm over the moon for Hurwitz' beautiful score... (moving right along) ... and even though nobody can possibly be unaware of the fact that Armstrong is going to survive, the cinematography and the sound design make the near-critical moments horrifying.
Rated 14 Oct 2018
55
45th
a very good movie technically, and a fine enough movie characteristically. more famous men need to be unmarried, childless or gay, because the stock drama of nuclear families gets tiresome after a while. the launch and space sequences, though, are stellar.
Rated 29 May 2019
90
62nd
I thought this was a pretty good movie. I feel like people always see Armstrong as this historical cutout of someone who is happy to be going to space, so I'm glad there's a movie that humanizes him and shows the drama behind the scenes with his family. It does feel a little slow but the acting is good (especially Gosling) and the editing and production design are very well done as well. You may have to go in expecting more of a drama instead of a straight space movie though. Good stuff!
Rated 24 May 2020
35
19th
The best that can be said is that the eventual voyage dans la lune is effective. Yet even that turns out to be mere pretext for a laughably absurd bit of Hollywood confection. All of the deadly earnest family drama, from the repressed grief to the clichéd outbursts, is utterly unconvincing, despite all of the effort to produce correctly-costumed shaky-cam vérité. Ultimately, the fault lies in wishing too hard to please everyone, or, in other words, the filmmaker comes across as a conformist.
Rated 14 Mar 2019
63
42nd
The actual space sequences are really, really amazing. But the movie seems to hardly care about space exploration at all. Instead, Armstrong's entire NASA involvement is treated as little more than a plot device to develop the family drama. It's just disappointing because Chazelle demonstrated a technical mastery that could have been built into a masterpiece entry in the space movie canon.
Rated 21 Oct 2018
44
42nd
I like a lot of the aesthetic choices but this film is so goddamn boring. The stock conflict and drama strike me as forced with the few interesting elements the film does espouse upon being underutilized. Frankly, just reading about the politics of the moon landing is more engaging than some schlocky attempt of a personal drama. For what it's worth it's fairly well acted and the shots at the end were really cool to gawk at, but this is not a movie I'd want to watch twice.
Rated 29 Jan 2019
49
40th
I can't really fault this on any technical level, but my god what a dreary experience. It's just wall to wall sulking and moping- It's the moonlanding, people, not a fucking Simple Plan concert! Cheer the FUCK UP.
Rated 28 Oct 2018
77
66th
The criticism of "Oscar bait" will likely be applied here, and to some extent I agree that the drama is often rote and forced. But where the real cinematic value here lies is in how Chazelle brings you in the rocket and expresses what it's like to be strapped in a tiny cockpit sitting upon hundreds of tons of fuel and machinery. You pray that everything has been accounted for, and that not even a single bolt will fail. Would be even better if it was longer and focused more on the training.
Rated 10 Jul 2019
61
25th
First Man is impressive for both its attention to detail (& jargon) and how incredibly dull Chazelle makes the Moon landing. The acting is alright (perhaps even good) though Gosling's brand of solemn gazing is unmitigated and off-putting, and the film could have done with more of Stoll's Buzz Aldrin. The shuttle rides, filmed in shaky cam, are nauseating creating a sense of claustrophobia and lack of control. I also liked the score. Everything else was a chore to watch and the film is too long.
Rated 18 Apr 2019
90
97th
Looks, sounds great & beautifully performed. However what this film is really about is grief, fatherhood, commitment & the human condition itself. This isn’t a film just about humankind's technological achievements, & it’s certainly not a film about whose flag was first. It’s a powerful reflection on what we achieve & at what cost. Gosling expertly portrays an ultimately ordinary man, grief-stricken, restrained by the emotional conservatism of the era, but still achieving greatness.
Rated 12 Apr 2019
72
41st
"First Man" takes some liberties with history, it makes early space flight seem like it was conducted with rickety equipment liable to fall apart at any moment, and it does so to great affect. It's the first movie I've seen to truly display how utterly insane a man must be to want to be a passenger in a metal cylinder hurling into an empty vacuum at 24,000 miles per hour, and how terrifying that thought is. But the issue from this movie doesn't come from space, it comes from uninteresting drama.
Rated 10 Apr 2019
88
68th
Saw this at the right moment for this to completely gut me. That said, I totally did not expect to be this emotionally engaged in a story that otherwise has been best retold by a parody in The Onion. Gosling and Foy are incredible, but we knew that going in. The production excels at driving how insane this venture was.
Rated 20 Jan 2019
58
13th
Doesn't work in many respects. My biggest complaint is just how scattershot it is and how these little scenes don't add anything. I find it hard to believe that Armstrong's life, compressed down to 2 hours, could be so boring. Real life is not all neat and tidy, so why do they decide to add a special moment to make it seem that way? Buzz is the biggest jerk and nothing comes of it. It could have pushed the angle about the moon trip being a waste of money, instead it flounders with no message.
Rated 20 Jan 2019
40
17th
As far as anything interesting goes this is utterly bereft of content. It follows the same tired old biopic formula, Gosling's performance is muted, going on wooden, every scene is a cliche and there's no suspense because anyone interested enough in watching this is going to know how it all pans out. So unless you're a sound engineer or something there just isn't much reason to watch this dour, by the numbers movie. Oh, and the camerawork is really annoying too.
Rated 17 Jan 2019
6
40th
Various highlights of technique and production but the story doesn't register and hardly has any dramatic pulse. MVP: Sound artists.
Rated 07 Dec 2018
73
54th
Precise, clinical, and frustratingly inaccessible, FIRST MAN is tailored to Ryan Gosling's strengths as a taciturn modern-day knight. With chivalric restraint and a (space)suit of armor, his Neil Armstrong embarks on a consuming quest that immerses the audience in the technological jungle of early space flight. This film is not a crowd-pleasing biopic, but a study of unknowable frontiers in space and in the human mind.
Rated 08 Nov 2018
7
58th
The whole thing plays like a theme park attraction, one that fully immerses its audiences in the intense and arduous journey Armstrong and his team went through. While a superlative technical achievement, I like my movies to contain some compelling characters and drama rather than the equivalent of a male mannequin trapped in a tumble dryer. But damn, the camera work, score and sound design make for a truly visceral experience that makes me wish I'd seen it in IMAX.
Rated 30 Oct 2018
65
36th
The launch sequences were genuinely terrifying and massive while the drama sequences were genuinely ordinary and rather boring. I don't think there were many missteps, just that the subjects here were boring white suburbanites with little to offer in terms of character. Chazelle is really a master at capturing orchestral arrangements of the most complex and chaotic moments. And I should really rate this higher but it just wasn't my cup of tea.
Rated 23 Oct 2018
8
80th
Immersive and boldly chosen visuals and sounds on the ships (blurry, claustrophobic, loud) are paralleled by more shaky-cam close-ups and tense drama on earth, leading to stunning physical and emotional release on the bleak, vast, and silent lunar landscape (Gosling is solid throughout). The blip on the radar is how the great "Whitey on the Moon" critique ("I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the moon") is only followed up with, well, more movie about white guys going to the moon.
Rated 21 Oct 2018
80
70th
Among the more intense in-theater experiences that I can remember. Some will undoubtedly view it as slow, but I was deeply invested in (especially) the second half. Gosling is so damn good, and the way that Chazelle - and his remarkably steady hand - portrays the Moon itself as not only its own character, but indeed as something of an antagonist to Armstrong, was very well executed. My expectations of "good Oscar bait" were replaced with "this is absolutely deserving of the Oscars it WILL win".
Rated 14 Oct 2018
80
59th
The aesthetic choices pay off for Chazelle - it feels like the pieces of metal of the rockets and screws holding them together could burst from cosmic pressure at any moment. Gosling gives one of his best performances - he gravitates toward these roles or they are shaped for him, or both. Foy is very good as well, but the family stuff, though believably naturalistic at times, feels vague compared to the textures of the launches. The lack of score in so many scenes is refreshing.
Rated 30 Aug 2023
44
21st
There's an argument for this as a metamodern film. The way the narrative oscillates between an old school patriotic film of America's proudest achievement, and a weirdly creepy look into Neil Armstrong's family life. His kids are like out of The Shining. Honestly, In Space and On Earth are these totally opposite films spliced together. The space sequences are awesome, but the family drama dialogue was trash
Rated 23 Nov 2019
54
32nd
Well made, but did not engage me at all.
Rated 08 Sep 2019
35
11th
Technically competent in most respects, but this is a film that's not interesting nor entertaining. Not in its form, not in its story. It will not move you to introspective thought. It will not stir anything inside you, really. It merely exists. And as such, it has no reason to.
Rated 15 Jul 2019
66
34th
I love all things space related and really wanted to love this movie, but Ryan Gosling never convinced me that he was the character he was portraying. For me to enjoy a bio-oriented picture at some point I've got to believe to some degree that the lead is the character he or she is portraying. For example, Joaquin Phoenix became Johnny Cash, Ed Harris was Pollock, Jamie Foxx was Ray Charles. Gosling simply never really became Neil Armstrong to me. Rather, I saw an actor simply playing a part.
Rated 12 Jul 2019
80
88th
Very solid.
Rated 21 Apr 2019
44
44th
Asks the question 'what drives a person to excel?', and answers it in a fascistic way.
Rated 10 Apr 2019
78
89th
(JUPITER-C OF LIFE)
Rated 16 Mar 2019
65
44th
Gosling - the sad face you have hard times believe in.
Rated 19 Feb 2019
60
49th
A little too solemn and austere, but Chazelle manages to bring a procedural and cinematic form (the 16mm-like camera is great) to the greatest endeavor of human kind -- we stay almost all the time inside the spacecrafts and barely see the darkness out there. Landing shots are beautiful. But Chazelle still can't quite direct human relations -- the family melodrama seems inert despite Claire Foy's enormous efforts to approach the material with humanity and grace.
Rated 05 Feb 2019
30
11th
There is a good story in this film, but the filmmakers could not find it. They were too busy trying to make this film perfect for Oscar night. The film is poorly edited to the point that we get to know none of the characters and we don't really care about anything that is happening onscreen. The events in this film are important, but the director is too busy shaking the camera to really care. I HATED this film and consider it one of the worst films of 2018.
Rated 14 Jan 2019
48
17th
A small step backwards for Chazelle. While many of the cockpit scenes were successfully tense, I really hated the constant shaky-cam approach throughout and found it very distracting. To be honest, I also didn't buy Gosling as Armstrong but that might be DC's fault. I've read a bit about Neil Armstrong in accounts from those who knew him and they didn't describe the boringly somber man we get here. Sadly FM fails to ignite the engines of one of the most historical achievements of all time.
Rated 30 Dec 2018
73
39th
Like a better looking but flatter and less interesting and less fun version of Apollo 13, despite the stakes being higher.
Rated 27 Nov 2018
65
43rd
Meh.
Rated 21 Nov 2018
34
18th
You'd think Chazelle was some kind of film student and would know that the sheer volume of great space exploration films instantly made his underlit, downhearted, insular documentarian approach obsolete. He doesn't even have one exceptional scene, just a basic succession of everyday stress and sadness. Every image up to the moon landing is depressed. Only then there is peace.
Rated 21 Nov 2018
70
41st
It's really hard to shit on the technical aspects of this because most of it works. Gosling is great, the cinematography brings the imagery to life, the camera work itself is wonderful without being too flashy, the music is mostly interesting, and Chazelle brings it all together. Sometimes this brought some real humanity (the ending specifically) to the event, but honestly? It's a pretty dry, too slow, sometimes lifeless experience. Writing wasn't always there to be a compelling drama.
Rated 08 Nov 2018
26
13th
Does Ryan Gosling have facial muscles?
Rated 25 Oct 2018
58
47th
There haven't been many movies about 100 % successful expeditions to Mount Everest. For a reason.
Rated 23 Oct 2018
78
58th
After such visceral and intense experiences such as the opening sequence and the Gemini flight, it's a shame that the finale on the moon felt so underwhelming; likely because the finale relied on fulfilling Neil's emotional arc, which was the weakest part of the movie: The Armstrongs are the blandest, whitest nuclear family since Leave it to Beaver.
Rated 22 Oct 2018
80
79th
Negatives: Claire Foy's accent, overlong, gratuitously white (a single protest scene does not make up for the erasure of black calculators or the lower class). Positives: the incredibly anxious shuttle test scenes, the intentional shaking and stillness of the cinematography (which is generally great), and the entirety and every aspect of the Apollo 11 mission. There's a lot more in the middle of these extremes—it's a good film.
Rated 20 Oct 2018
7
55th
'First Man' was good but not great. Chazelle feels slightly off his game here; notes and beats that he normally hit fall flat or off rhythm. It lands just fine but it feels off kilter and off center. There's an instant classic looming just under the surface and it's frustrating to never see it break out and reach that potential. That said the spectacle offered in four or five intense set pieces is worth the cost of admission and definitely deserves the largest and loudest theater you can afford.
Rated 20 Oct 2018
70
41st
Feels authentic, but not real. Ryan Gosling should never play human beings.
Rated 18 Oct 2018
20
3rd
Not for me, I guess. It was well-acted, well shot, etc., but I just found it dull, and realised I'd rather be home watching Australian competitive reality TV while knitting. Left at 1 hr 20 minutes. I remember nothing.
Rated 14 Oct 2018
75
75th
chazelle's THE AVIATOR - at once: a great spectacle and an exploration of the nearly broken man who at the helm of it
Rated 13 Oct 2018
75
65th
Technically flawless, the cinematography and sound design in particular is excellent. But it is a bit lifeless and long.
Rated 11 Oct 2018
65
24th
For the science and history classes, and I'm sure most of the students will say it's boring them. Although it's a highly impressive technical feat, using today's incredible film technology to realistically dramatise the moon landing and the efforts that lead up to it, this is as flat as a flat Earther's arguments. Armstrong is a stale almost anti-character with very shallow depth, and even the admirable Foy is merely given the 'worried wife back home' role. MVP here is the theremin player.
Rated 16 Nov 2024
45
57th
#24#, rw2, story, ratings, director Chazelle, cast
Rated 20 Aug 2023
100
96th
Rather than delve into all the details about the space program, it's a pretty intensely personal dive into Neil Armstrong's psyche. He's an intensely introverted man dealing with the tragic loss of a young daughter which drives him even further inside. We experience the rigors of training and space flight from an extremely personal perspective, and ultimately it considers whether it takes a man this closed off to go through this all
Rated 14 Jun 2023
5
81st
I regret to inform the people that Chazelle might actually be an okay director
Rated 27 May 2023
78
71st
Much like the brutally cynical end of Chazelle’s Babylon we are left wondering “all this technology and for what? For the movers and shakers to profit and exploit political tensions? For the “heroes” of the story (Americans) to mostly be forgotten? For them to be found dead in a dingy hotel or blown up in some janky space vehicle if they can’t be mythologized. More here https://boringculture.substack.com/p/weekly-roundup-4
Rated 14 Nov 2021
61
23rd
Unnecessarily dramatized and Hollywood-ized. While the space shots are great, and the inevitable scene on the moon is beautiful, the rest of the film is dry, a little boring and frustratingly formulaic and typical. I particularly disliked all the boring and predictable family drama, which didn't bring anything new to the table and only padded the film with more running time. Watch 'Apollo 11 (2019)' instead.
Rated 06 Aug 2021
94
95th
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Rated 07 Jul 2021
80
87th
Perfectly executed biopic which rarely oversteps the standard template but, excels at every aspect of a movie. Clean script, absolute bonkers of cinematography, a fresh soundtrack and great performances all working together with the calculated direction of Chazelle. A deeply depressing success story.
Rated 06 Apr 2021
50
39th
More like Worst Man. File a divorce.
Rated 15 Nov 2020
65
63rd
The beginning really gets your attention but it never quite reached that again. The scenes looking at the earth and the moon descend were gorgeous, especially the lack of sound, really focuses you in on the vacuum of space.
Rated 13 Jun 2020
45
21st
The kind of film that will move me to note, "I'll bet this has some eloquent and learned defenders," but certainly not to actually read those defences. Can you imagine reading someone you respect actually trying to defend that fucking bracelet?
Rated 05 May 2020
86
94th
That bracelet hit me hard...
Rated 18 Feb 2020
95
84th
Great space race movie. This one really examined the life of Neil Armstrong more than any other, that I know of. Ryan Gosling was overlooked by Academy Awards that year. Phenomenal performance!
Rated 02 Jan 2020
70
54th
well-made into an interesting man.
Rated 22 Nov 2019
75
89th
Very good.
Rated 06 Sep 2019
80
84th
This will grow in stature over time I think. Much better than I expected from its somewhat lukewarm reception. Sound and visuals for space missions was really something.
Rated 31 Jul 2019
30
12th
You think a movie about the first guy that step foot on the moon should be interesting, but not really, the movie is well done and the story is fine, but the character is unappealing. Also Ryan acts as always: a robotic introvert with little arch, not much to say about that.
Rated 29 Jul 2019
55
25th
Director:" We want to play Armstrong as a man struggling with inner turmoil, hardly says a word, turns and looks at people for ages before speaking, doesn't show much emotion ... got anyone in mind?" Casting Director: "I have the very man!". The problem with FM is that everyone knows the outcome, so in order to make it interesting, it is entirely down to human interaction, and it just doesn't work if everyone just stares at each other! This is the antithesis of "Apollo 13" which got it perfect.
Rated 24 Feb 2019
60
26th
Underwhelming, but pleasant enough. When the central character is as interior as this, I really need to see something in the filmmaking that holds the whole thing together. I'm not sure it's there. And the story is a pretty straightforward underdog piece, though its quiet works to mask the scent. Despite these sort of negative comments, Chazelle wrung a few nice moments out of this, particularly in its regular use of subjective (and limited) perspective.
Rated 13 Feb 2019
65
45th
It's an amazingly well-made film, but it is hindered by the fact that it's a well-known story. Knowing what happens does take a little away from the storytelling and this, I think, was the film's ultimate undoing. Having said that, the rest of the film is great; the cast is in top form and they do try to add emotional touches to the story, with some success. Damien Chazelle feels a little restricted though and he might be better suited to creating his own stories.
Rated 12 Feb 2019
87
95th
Damien Chazelle stretches into new territory with this intensely personal depiction of the space race as seen through the lens of Neil Armstrong's experience, deftly switching between credible relationship drama, moving character moments and intensely suspenseful action sequences. Cinematography and sound design are superb, very immersive and often claustrophobic. The few moments in which the perspective shifts outward are breathtaking.
Rated 11 Feb 2019
65
50th
Found parts to be very boring and other parts to be very good. Second half better than first. Super space scenes. What killed it for me though was, in addition to the roll scenes, the shaky camera throughout, I think trying to make it look "1960ish." Got super dizzy watching this.
Rated 10 Feb 2019
65
24th
Historically accurate but very slow.
Rated 03 Feb 2019
71
50th
Pretty entertaining, considering all the plot turns are quite well known. Well directed and acted.
Rated 02 Feb 2019
55
44th
Fine movie, just really slow and felt like it could have just been a documentary. I wish it had spent more time in space and had some special effects. They didn't go to space til the end of the movie.
Rated 30 Jan 2019
85
89th
It feels like a great twist on the standard biopic. Tense, thrilling, but still with a lot of heart.
Rated 29 Jan 2019
86
84th
The moon landing sequence and new perspectives on Armstrong's life make First Man compelling viewing
Rated 25 Jan 2019
40
11th
Technically impressive, but with an overly long run time and less informative than I would’ve liked. Seeing more of the general public’s reactions before and after would’ve been interesting. I loved Chazelle’s Whiplash and I hoped that this would be on par with that. Ultimately I got more or less what I expected.
Rated 21 Jan 2019
63
23rd
Slow, dull, unengaging, emotionless... Ryan Gosling is extremely annoying with his never changing face...Claustrophobic camera shots and well chosen soundtrack saves the movie
Rated 12 Jan 2019
75
73rd
Of all the races I think the Space Race is one of my favourites. I enjoyed this quite a bit. Gosling is excellent, supporting cast excellent, Claire Foy excellent.
Rated 09 Jan 2019
86
62nd
I don't know if I really liked the vibe in this movie. It was somewhat slow and sad for almost all of it. There's nothing wrong with that, It just didn't really go well with me. Although, all of the acting was really great. Ryan Reynolds was good, but honestly Claire Foy really stuck out for me. If you were to watch this film before any of her others, you'd never know she wasn't from America. All-in-all I really enjoyed this movie, and would definitely recommend it.
Rated 09 Jan 2019
3
32nd
Why?
Rated 05 Jan 2019
40
30th
This movie was the most anticipated for me in the previous year. I am a huge fan of space movies and historic biographies and this movie was a historic space biography. The perfect combination for me. Unfortunately, came up a big disappointment, mainly because of the slow pace and the lack to provide a more "technical" background of Neil Armstrong although the runtime of 140 minutes. I don't know if I have to blame the book, the screenplay writer or the director for this.
Rated 04 Jan 2019
77
58th
Whiplash ve La La Land gibi iki müzikal film çekip hemen ardından bu kadar sade ve durağan bir Neil Armstrong biyografisine imza atan Damien Chazelle, First Man ile afallıyor ve izleyicide eli ayağı birbirine dolanmış yönetmenmiş gibi bir his bırakıyor.
Rated 02 Jan 2019
95
88th
An outlandishly well made mixture of human drama and technological prowess. It sides with historical accuracy most of the time, and still manages to be entertaining and aesthetically compelling. I don't know how Chazelle manages to be so good at his job.
Rated 30 Dec 2018
80
73rd
The space footage is great in this, and it manages to cover some parts of the space program I was unaware of. Fascinating to see some of the issues these men and their families had to face, and a more realistic reaction from the general public that we don't normally see regarding the space race
Rated 24 Dec 2018
80
81st
biopic'lerin düştüğü balon-mobilya-ve-karakter-kutsama-sanatı tuzağından kaçışı başarılı. tarihsel olaylar içerisinde insanı bulan hikayelerin daha çekici olması bir yana, 20.yy'ın en önemli gelişmelerinden birinin aktörüne kamusal imajı ve perde arkasında olanlar açısından bu kadar iyi pozisyonlarak yaklaşmak en az kamera başındaki zanaatkarlık kadar ayrı bir beceri. gosling ve foy'un sekmeyen başarılı performansları da ayrıca yükseltiyor filmi.
Rated 20 Dec 2018
87
80th
Doesn't always hit the spot dramatically, but so first-rate on a technical level, especially in the final act, that it does achieve a certain greatness.
Rated 09 Dec 2018
70
68th
Closeup - The Movie! I really did not like the way this was filmed. 80% of all shots are extreme closeups. This was clearly a conscious decision to enhance the immersion, but I found it just annyoing. That beeing said it was very well made and I don't have much else to complain.
Rated 08 Dec 2018
65
39th
Daughterdie+wifelisteningtotransmission-goingbadsocutherfeed-shesnapsturnitbackon-cant-yourprototcoltopretendcontrol+testkills3+whitiesonthemoonlol+becomesshittyhusband-wifesnapsforhimtopreparekids+putdaughternecklaceonmoon+globewatched
Rated 07 Dec 2018
71
40th
Story of one of *the* historical landmarks of the 20th century falls somewhat flat, due to its focus on Gosling's Armstrong, whose shut-off and intense personality makes him a difficult sell as the Everyman; lack of insight or probing of his motivations (outside of a family tragedy) means its difficult to become invested. Film might have benefited from following Stoll's likable Buzz Aldrin! Physically impressive and overwhelming space flight scenes are still worth the price of admission.
Rated 01 Dec 2018
70
59th
it's a peculiar picture about historic events also with the personal perspective of those involved; the episodic construction of the narrative, the presence of the family life and work, is very much resonsible for making the narrative look realistic, and actually giving a perspective about the personal life of the characters; decent direction; good soundtrack. There're some good scene and moments, but there also are some technically lower points and moments - in general, a decent work.
Rated 24 Nov 2018
92
98th
Keen direction, great soundtrack, game supporting cast and, specially, a performance for the ages by Gosling. In short, masterful.
Rated 20 Nov 2018
80
65th
"But what if we failed ..." is a strong question in a country and society mostly build on myths and lies. And Chazelle, to my surprise, is able to ask this question, to express doubts with an attitude of skeptic and a wonderfully effective physicality and roughness.
Rated 15 Nov 2018
60
45th
"First Man" is interesting throughout and boasts beautiful visuals, a very good score and strong acting. Chazelle proves his directorial chops in both the - messy but hey - suspenseful scenes and the more low-key ones, and arguably succeeds in shedding light on lesser known but no less noteworthy sides of the story. Somewhere between the surgical biopic approach of the main characters and the sketchy supporting ones though, "First Man" hovers more than it soars.
Rated 14 Nov 2018
40
33rd
Not too bad, but the story just doesn't work as a Hollywood movie, plus it's too long.
Rated 13 Nov 2018
7
64th
Rigid and uncomfortable (they're compliments by the way). Fully respected this take on the subject matter - something - for the most part felt missing. Landing scene was quite powerful.
Rated 05 Nov 2018
84
91st
A man gets fresh start while humanity's drive to progress further and further no matter the costs in money and human lives makes him go where no one's gone before. The performances, mostly Gosling and Foy, are great as are the dreadfully claustrophobic cockpit scenes. The moon landing (spoiler!) is a serene look at whether the trip was important and if the risks and losses were worth it. Side note: if you think Ryan Gosling is actually a lizard, this is not the movie to prove you wrong.
Rated 05 Nov 2018
54
34th
I really badly wanted to like this movie more than I did. Gosling and Foy were great, but played insufferable characters. The way the movie was shot worried far more about putting you "in the cockpit" than helping you understand what was actually going on. I also thought the movie did a pretty bad job of putting historical context around what we were watching.
Rated 05 Nov 2018
40
8th
boring as commuting
Rated 04 Nov 2018
80
77th
I liked it but it was a bit dry. You need more character to make it mostly about Armstrong, you need more detail to make it about the story. I did find the Eagle has Landed sequence hugely tense though, to it's credit.
Rated 03 Nov 2018
70
40th
From a techinal aspect its brilliant. Cinematography, music and directing all wonderfully done. Acting also impeccable by everyone in the cast. The character development should be better though, the story is a very by the numbers bio-pic and a lot of the intensity is taken way because we know that certain event are going to take place(like yeah we know he is gonna land on the moon I am pretty sure he's not gonna die).

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