The Fabelmans reviews are calling Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical movie a potential Oscar winner
The Fabelmans, the latest movie from Steven Spielberg, has made its global debut at Toronto International Film Festival. The movie is the first time the director has properly explored his early years on screen – Gabriel LaBelle and Mateo Zoryna Francis-Deford play sixteen and seven-year-old versions of Sammy Fabelman, an aspiring filmmaker based on Spielberg, while Paul Dano and Michelle Williams are fictionalized versions of Spielberg's parents.
The Fabelmans also marks the first time since 2001 that Spielberg will be involved in writing the screenplay for one of his movies – his last screenwriting venture was for AI: Artificial Intelligence. He's co-writing this movie with Tony Kushner, who previously penned the Spielberg movies Lincoln and West Side Story. But what are the critics saying about the semi-autobiographical movie? We've got a roundup of all the latest reviews, straight out of Toronto.
"In an age obsessed with character origin stories, the early word on Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical movie The Fabelmans made it look like he was out to join the cinematic trend. But his crowd-pleasing, coming-of-age-tale doesn’t fit neatly to that box, or any other. His deeply personal narrative isn’t wholly an autobio, a greatest-hits replay of a singular filmmaker’s career, or a cliché ode to moviemaking. The Fabelmans is a vulnerable reach into the past, to heal a wound that seems to still be as tender as the day it opened decades ago, in spite of the bursts of comedy and the measured ruminations on display."
"Because it's Spielberg, it's all beautifully, meticulously rendered, and not a little glazed in wistful sentiment: an infinitely tender, sometimes misty ode to the people who raised him and the singular
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