First Man (2018)
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as Neil Armstrong
as Janet Armstrong
as Edward Higgins White
as Deke Slayton
as Buzz Aldrin
as Gene Kranz
as Dave Scott
as Elliott See
as Pete Conrad
as Mike Collins
as Gus Grissom
as Jim Lovell
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It's a special film that keeps you white-knuckled about the outcome of one of the most well-documented days in human history.
Chazelle and Gosling have achieved something remarkable with First Man, even if that first man is the last man we feel we truly know.
This is a respectful movie, even a genuflecting one; there's never a moment when Chazelle fails to let you know he's doing important, valuable work. But that's the problem: The movie feels too fussed-over for such a low-key hero.
When Armstrong climbs into Gemini 8 and it blasts off into the heavens, we've never felt this claustrophobia or listened to the creaking of the metal or felt the thrust of the rockets quite this way before in a movie.
A movie so revelatory in its realism, so gritty in its physicality, that it becomes a drama of thrillingly hellbent danger and obsession.
A powerful experience that will inspire renewed awe of what Armstrong and his ilk did. It may not be a giant leap for filmmaking, but it's another small step for this filmmaker.
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