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  Review by Roberto_ ★★★★ 17

  la la landing

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 34

  oops i forgot to "review" this it's really good and i cried like a banshee at the end (which is starting to happen more and more as my brain wilts in my old age) and then i've spent the last week trying to sort out if Chazelle actually earned that ending and then i realized i don't think i care? i dread having to have that conversation for the next 5 months, but such is the life i've chosen.

  anyway, the music fucks. that much i know for sure.

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 3

  neil: i love you to the moon and back
  janet: prove it

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 18

  An engineer witnesses the death of a child and can't help but see it as a failure of technical precision and imagination. He willfully isolates himself in an effort to prove it, and through sheer obsessive will and technical process orchestrates a relatively pointless and performative but nonetheless very cathartic and very real miracle to see it through. He achieves the metaphysical and by the end is still isolated. What a sad fucking movie.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 2

  Man, being an astronaut looks way less fun than I used to think.

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  Review by sree ★★★★ 1

  fucked up if true

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  Review by kai ★★★★ 4

  ‪first man is about GRIEF it is about MASCULINITY but most importantly it is about justin hurwitz BLASTING THE FUCKING SYNTHS WHEN THE EAGLE TOUCHES DOWN ON THE MOON BABY‬

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  Review by owen ★★★★

  *blows a kiss to the moon* for ryan gosling

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  Review by Sean Baker 31

  Technically really solid. Linus Sandgren really rocks the cinematography on this. He loves his Camtec Vintage Series Ultra Primes.

  Here's an article on it: www.camtec.tv/news/2017/7/18/linus-sandgren-fsf-on-joy-camtec-vintage-ultra-primes-in-icg-magazine

  Saw it on the big screen at DGA West which means I did not see the end sequence in IMAX. But honestly, I've never fancied format changes (that alter the aspect ratio) in films so happy to see it all at 2.39.

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  Review by tru ★★★★½ 4

  tired: stanley kubrick faked the moon landing
  wired: damien chazelle faked the moon landing

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 6

  i saw myself when neil stands outside, holding his telescope, staring into space. grief is too much, people are too much, it’s so easy for the relentless trauma to overwhelm. sometimes we just need to stare off into the sky, and dream. the power of this movie is that it makes you believe that you can find your catharsis, even in the worst tragedies. it makes you dream for a future where you’re okay.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½

  First Man is inspiring — and depressing. I like that it is both. (Damien Chazelle’s films are never just one thing.) Man once walked on the moon. Now we make movies about it.