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Critic Reviews for First Man

It leaves the audience with the feeling of watching an incredible historical document but perhaps not a perfectly engaging narrative.

Bryan Bishop, The Verge

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“First Man” is so immersive in its glitchy, hurtling, melting-metal authenticity.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety

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‘La La Land’ duo Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling don’t give us a flag-waving hero but a human being and that makes all the difference.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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There is a very moving sub-plot about Armstrong and his little dead daughter that needed to get a movie of its own.

IANS Source, News18 India

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Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle reunite after La La Land for one of the most triumphant cinematic experiences of the year.

Rohan Naahar, Hindustan Times

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“First Man” is an anti-thriller of rare intensity.

Michael Nordine, Indiewire

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It is a movie packed with wonderful vehemence and rapture.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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Director Damien Chazelle shoots for the moon in the stunning First Man.

Rafael Motamayor, IGN

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First Man will make you feel you’ve traveled to the Moon, but that confinement will leave you cold.

Max Covill, Film School Rejects

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First Man is absolutely a film that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible.

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

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Even when "First Man" stumbles as historical psychodrama, it still represents a giant leap forward for movies about the physical experience of flight.

Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert

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It’s paint-by-numbers filmmaking and often plays more like a text book than a captivating motion picture.

Gary Wolcott, Tricity Herald

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Damien Chazelle’s drama about Neil Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing is a moving tale of loss and peril.

Mark Kermode, The Guardian

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“First Man” presents its intensity differently.

Adann Kenn Alexxandar, The Valdosta Daily Times

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“First Man:” allowing us to know one of our most revered American icons as someone who was a man, first.

Brandy McDonnell, News Ok

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It's Ryan Gosling himself whom Neil Armstrong may have approved of.

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

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First Man is a stunning piece of work that leaves you thinking about it, way after it's over.

Renuka Vyavahare, The Times of India

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First Man doesn’t display a lot of interest in Neil’s social world.

Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine

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First Man is an intimate film about a purposefully enigmatic man.

Alan Cerny, ComingSoon.net

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First Man is untouchable with the kind of vision, verve, and brilliance we’ve come to expect from Chazelle.

Matt Goldberg, Collider

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“First Man” offers a meticulous look at what it took to get those first men on the moon.

Michael Smith, Tulsa World

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First Man puts its audience inside a tin can as it shakes and rattles its claustrophobic way into the sky.

Mark Kermode, The Guardian

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“First Man” is a disgraceful portrayal of his legacy.

Michael Clark, Gwinnett Daily Post

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This is an admirable film of a man to be admired.

Rick Romancito, The Taos News

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The movie will likely disorient anyone uncomfortable with a story that has the nerve to side, when it makes sense, with Foy’s Janet.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

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