MOVIE · 2018

First Man

Drama141 min

Neil Armstrong’s path to Apollo 11 runs through personal loss, punishing test flights, and the escalating risks of NASA’s 1960s space program. Ryan Gosling is Armstrong, a reserved engineer and pilot whose work keeps pulling him from home toward the Gemini missions and the push for the Moon, while Claire Foy is the wife left to manage the strain and uncertainty on the ground. Directed by Damien Chazelle, the film stays close to Armstrong’s perspective as the years build toward July 20, 1969, with Jason Clarke and Kyle Chandler among the astronauts and NASA officials around him.