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The Fabelmans is an intimate adventure through the life of Hollywood's most important filmmaker. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2023. Nick Boyd Battle Royale With Cheese. Overall, the ...
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By Rafael Motamayor
Posted: Sep 13, 2022 2:30 pm
This is an advanced review out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where The Fabelmans made its world premiere. It will have a limited theatrical release on Nov. 11, 2022, before expanding wide on Nov. 23.
Steven Spielberg presents his warmest, most loving, most personal project, as The Fabelmans sees the legendary filmmaker retell the story of his childhood through the magic of an Amblin movie. The result is a therapeutic, emotional, raw, funny, endearing ode to family, artists, and the power of cinema.
We've seen a lot of filmmakers turn autobiographical with their movies lately. From Roma to Belfast, to the upcoming Armageddon Time and Empire of Light, these films see their directors reckoning with their upbringing and the mistakes they made. Some of these end up as fascinating and beautiful movies in their own right – others, simply an exercise in ego. The Fabelmans belongs to the former. This is the movie Spielberg's entire career has been building to. After all, the director's story is well known, particularly because of how much it influenced his earlier work. With The Fabelmans, Spielberg takes the chance to rewrite his own mythology, retelling the events of his childhood to be the idealized version he may wish had been real. Like The Matrix: Resurrections, this is a therapy session turned into a movie, a chance for Spielberg to bring his parents back and get closer to his family, all while making a hugely entertaining coming-of-age movie.
The film follows the titular Fabelmans, and focuses on Sammy Fabelman throughout his young years, starting with the time he went to see his first motion picture and got traumatized by a big sequence in The Greatest Show on Earth, and how he became obsessed with recreating that scene with toys in his room. It isn't until his mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams in a career-redefining performance), suggests he films the scene to be able to watch it over and over that she realizes what Sammy wants is to regain a sense of control from its emotional impact, and movies give him a chance to claim some control over life.
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The Fabelmans sees one of our best living directors bringing his childhood to the screen in a cathartic, therapeutic, emotional, and hugely entertaining way. The ending — with a nice cameo — is an all-time great Spielberg scene. This is a film so personal and intimate, so much about trying to see and understand one's parents and the unhappiness and...
Steven Spielberg goes autobiographical with The Fabelmans, his warmest and most personal film to date. With a coming-of-age story that is universal in its portrayal of misunderstood artists and broken homes, but hyper-specific in its portrayal of the childhood that formed a legendary filmmaker, this is a therapy session turned into a hugely enterta...
IGN's Rafael Motamayor praises The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg's most personal film, as a coming-of-age triumph and a love letter to his family and cinema. He calls it a therapy session, a therapy session, and a therapy session, and gives it a 9/10 rating.
This review originally ran September 10, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. ... That “The Fabelmans” is one of Spielberg’s most ...
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- Steve Pond
Jan 24, 2023 · The Fabelmans, Spielberg’s coming-of-age drama about one young boy’s love of movies, had me from hello and left me – in classic Spielbergian style – in a state of quiet euphoria. What I’d failed to realise going in is that I’ve been primed for this movie my whole life. Spielberg’s films have been an essential part of the cultural ...
Jan 25, 2023 · The Fabelmans movie review: Steven Spielberg’s origin story is a hilarious and heart-breaking gem Michelle Williams dominates in a film that proves that the legendary director can do small and ...
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Jan 27, 2023 · Loosely based on the acclaimed director’s experience growing up in New Jersey, Arizona and then California, The Fabelmans opens on young Sammy Fabelman’s first ever trip to the pictures. With ...
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Jan 16, 2023 · It finishes joyfully, and your heart is fed. In two-and-a-half hours, a decade of Spielberg’s own life flies by. An autopsy of a marriage and a homage to invention, it’s a bittersweet piece of ...
