First Man

First Man’s director, Damien Chazelle, thought that Neil Armstrong’s story would fit in well into the thriller genre, and I don’t think he was wrong at all. But, there’s something else that Chazelle brings to the film that heightens the experience in an unexpected way. The tangible sense of absolute terror at the vastness of space infuses the action with such an enhanced sense of extreme and existential fear that takes the sensation onto another sensory level.

It’s the story of a man so...