'‘The Fabelmans’ Is the Rare Great Movie About the
the Rare Great Movie About the
When I
saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” at the Toronto Film Festival in September, I absolutely
And while
I never expected the film to be some breakout smash, my hope for it — and
I assumed
that a drama about how Steven Spielberg got to be the genius he is would
“The Fabelmans,”
I think, has a bad title — it sounds like a sitcom starring David Schwimmer and
But the
movie is a rapt and enveloping experience, a true memoir on film
(If Spielberg
had written the story of his youth in book form, without changing the names, I
It’s not
that the two hate each other; they’re just not right for each other
That’s because
he was flying blind, making it all up as he went along
You might
say, “Spielberg and the scratchy 8mm home movies he made as a kid? Sorry, but
” Except that
Spielberg occupies a special place in our culture
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