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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Review: ‘First Man’ Stars Ryan Gosling’s Eyelashes, Intergalactic Glitter, No American Flags

By Observer, Oct. 12, 2018

Damien Chazelle, the director of the ridiculously over-praised Oscar winner La La Land, reunites with Ryan Gosling, one of that film’s two clumsy musical stars, for the far superior First Man, a slick biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong. The title, as everyone knows, refers to the fact that he was the first man to walk on the moon when the Apollo 11 landed that memorable night of July 20, 1969. The movie is meticulously researched and a big crowd pleaser. My reservations, based on my basic ignorance of—and general indifference to—the space program and the billions spent on NASA which I believe could be put to better use, are purely my own and I assume full responsibility.