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The Fabelmans Steven Spielberg. 2022

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The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg) - review by Rookie-Critic

The Fabelmans was better than I was anticipating it to be. It wasn't the perfect movie, and Spielberg has a tendency to lean a little too much into the big sweeping moments of triumph or emotion. This was something that really worked for the big spectacle movies of his heyday (i.e. E.T., Close Encounters, etc.), but hasn't necessarily aged well and kind of detracts from those moments now more than adds to them. The whole movie also has what I've been calling the "Spielberg Sheen." It's not something I really know how to describe, but I feel like if you've seen any of Spielberg's films post-Munich you get what I'm talking about. It is beautiful and gives a lot of the movie a dream-like quality (I'm not entirely sure if that was the desired effect or, if it was, what significance that holds, but that's the impression I got from it). It's mostly innocuous, but I felt myself becoming distracted by it a lot, and I'm not certain that's a good thing.

However, the story surprised me. You walk into a Steven Spielberg movie expecting a certain sentimentality, at least, a lot of the most popular Spielberg films carry that frame of mind. I was expecting Fabelmans to have a lot of that sentimentality towards the art of making movies, the trailers sure marketed the film that way. However, while definitely having its moments of sentimentality, this takes the approach of showing a slightly uglier side of the artist's struggle. The ways in which the artist's brain can take instead of give, how the total dedication to a craft has the ability to consume and shut out, and that a happy ending one way doesn't necessarily mean a happy ending all around. It's an interesting, darker (albeit slightly) side to Spielberg's film making, one that doesn't come out but maybe once every 5th or 6th film. We saw it in Munich, you see it in Jaws, if you go real far back into his catalogue you can see it in a TV movie he did called Duel, and, although it wears the mask of his more grand movies, you can see it in The Fabelmans as well. Spielberg is undoubtedly a great director, and I wish he'd feel a little less beholden to himself sometimes and really allow his movies to breath their own air outside of just being quite-so "Spielbergian," because the best parts of The Fabelmans are the parts where he breaks away from that mold, and it puts it right on the borderline of being great.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.

Shoutouts to Seth Rogen and Paul Dano, who really stand out. Also, to David Lynch, who really steals the show in the final scene of the movie.

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The Fabelmans (2022) Review

Sammy Fabelman growing up in a post World War II world in Arizona is about to realise his dreams of being a filmmaker as he must deal with growing up and everything a family can throw at you in this delightful coming of age drama. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…) “”

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The lights change how everything looks. It's hard to find our house. Harsh is the dark house with no lights.

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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ To World Premiere At Toronto Film Festival⁣

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Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans, the director’s semi-autobiographical movie based on his own family and upbringing, will world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. The 47th edition of TIFF runs September 8-18.⁣

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The bow will mark Spielberg’s first-ever appearance at the Toronto fest, which comes in the critical fall festival corridor that also includes Venice and Telluride. An exact date for the Fabelmans premiere has not yet been set, but it comes ahead of the Universal/Amblin film’s platform release November 11. It opens wide November 23.⁣

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The Fabelmans centers on a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves. Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle, Seth Rogen, Jeannie Berlin, Julia Butters, Robin Bartlett, Keeley Karsten and Judd Hirsch star in the pic penned by Spielberg and Tony Kushner.

The cast also includes David Lynch, Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord, Birdie Borria, Alina Brace, Sophia Kopera, Oakes Fegley, Sam Rechner, Chloe East, Jonathan Hadary and Isabelle Kusman.⁣

Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg and Kushner are producers.⁣

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Amblin Adds Six To Cast Of Steven Spielberg’s Next Film Loosely Based On His Childhood

EXCLUSIVE: Mateo Zoryna Francis-Deford, Keeley Karsten, Birdie Borria, Alina Brace, and Sophia Kopera join the cast of Steven Spielberg’s next film, based loosely on his childhood.

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