Damien Chazelle

[Chazelle:] See if you can marry two things that feel like they should not exist in a movie together: the heights of musical spectacle that we're used to from Old Hollywood with a more documentary-informed sense of realism...

An indie Amadeus...it's the career-best performances by Simmons and Teller...that make Whiplash unforgettable.

By focusing on Armstrong’s human perspective, First Man gives us a new window into the costs and benefits of taking 'one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'