“First Man” (*** out of four) was an absorbing and ambitious biographical drama about the astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) who overcame incredible odds and led a dangerous American expedition into space and became the first human being to set foot on the moon. Not a great film, as some critics have said, but rich in period detail and human feeling and anchored by Gosling’s quietly powerful performance. Similar in many ways in character and structure to “Apollo 13” although lacking some of that film’s fire and fear.