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    First Man

    Directed by Damien Chazelle (WhipLash & La La Land), written by Josh Singer (The Post & Spotlight) with Ryan Gosling once again Chazelle’s lead actor; in this he plays the very stoic and reserved first astronaut on the moon, Neil Armstrong. I suppose technically this is a biopic because it’s based on the official biography of Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen, but the beats don’t play out like a biopic. It’s more the idea of how this dream, this notion of putting a man on the moon came to fruition; seen through the eyes of Neil Armstrong and his wife Jan (Claire Foy (The Crown) and their children. The…