Don't Miss 'Apollo 11' in IMAX

At liftoff from Kennedy Space Center, we are told by the splendid documentary “Apollo 11,” Neil Armstrong's heart rate was elevated only mildly, at 110 beats per minute. It also stood at 110 during the lander's descent to the lunar surface, though it rose to 156 at the moment of touchdown; good to know that the first member of our species to walk on the moon permitted himself some excitement. Your own pulse will pound at many points during Todd Douglas Miller's film, which opens this week exclusively in IMAX, as befits the subject, then widens, or more properly narrows, next week to conventional screens as well. Much of the footage hasn't been seen before, having languished for decades in the National Archives. And it was scanned at high resolution from pristine 65mm source material, so this evocation of the mission half a century ago is as good as it's likely to get—meaning not just good but magnificent.