When I saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” at the Toronto Film Festival in September, I absolutely loved it.
And while I never expected the film to be some breakout smash, my hope for it — and my cautiously optimistic prediction — is that it would find a hook into the culture.
I assumed that a drama about how Steven Spielberg got to be the genius he is would resonate, in a big way, with movie fans from multiple generations.
Okay, not so much with those under 35.
But that still leaves a lot of us!“The Fabelmans,” I think, has a bad title — it sounds like a sitcom starring David Schwimmer and Mayim Bialik as the parents.
But the movie is a rapt and enveloping experience, a true memoir on film.
Like all good memoirs, the movie is about a few things at once — in this case, the adventure of growing up,
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