Review of First Man (2018) by E. Oliver Whitney for ScreenCrush — 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 Chazelle finally takes us to that big rock in the sky, the sequences may be gorgeous to look at, but the film fails to capture how awe-inspiring something as epic as a trip to the moon must have been.
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This review of First Man (2018) was written by E. Oliver Whitney and published by ScreenCrush on 10 September 2018.
First Man has generally received positive reviews.
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