The early reception for Chazelle’s space epic since its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last month has been superlative. Under the National Review headline “First Man is the movie of the Year,” my friend and former New York Post colleague Kyle Smith joined with the majority who found the biopic 82 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. He crowed: “First Man is why we go to the movies.”
And on top of that, the First Man is due to arrive on the real Columbus day, and the command module was named the Columbia, the old nickname for America.
Poor Thelma. It must be a conspiracy!