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Stephanie Zacharek of Time ranked the film as the best movie of 2022. [141] Zacharek would furthermore praise Williams and Dano's performances as part of Time's Top 10 movie performances of 2022, describing Williams as "a portrait of a woman so full of life she doesn't know where to put it all…Williams captures Mitzi's all-encompassing incandescence and her isolation," and Dano "In him we see the sum of all the things that so many men of that generation just didn't know how to be; we also see a deep well of love, no less real for being left unexpressed." [142] Due to the film being released in the United Kingdom a year after its premiere, it ranked number 15 on Time Out 's list of "The best movies of 2023," with Phil de Semlyen writing "It's been an era of filmmakers recreating their childhoods on screen, with Alfonso Cuarón, Paolo Sorrentino and Lee Isaac Chung all parlaying their own younger lives into Oscar-worthy dramas in recent years. But of all of these cine-reminiscences, Steven Spielberg's feels the most alive to the possibility that it might even be misremembering or misinterpreting events – and thus it feels like the most guileless and honest of the lot. With Spielberg's on-screen surrogate, Gabriel LaBelle's Sammy Fabelman, to the fore, its many moments of hurt and wonderment are dazzlingly realised." [143] Burlingame, Jon (February 7, 2022). "As John Williams Turns 90, No Signs of Slowing Down, With Fabelmans, Indiana Jones and Birthday Gala in the Offing". Variety . Retrieved February 7, 2022.Lane, Anthony (November 11, 2022). "Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" and the Madness of Love". The New Yorker . Retrieved November 11, 2022. Vourlias, Christopher (October 18, 2022). "Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans' to Open Cairo Film Festival". Variety . Retrieved October 18, 2022. Gabriel Bateman as Roger, another member of Sammy's Boy Scout troop who appears alongside his family in his first films

The Fabelmans is a 2022 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, who co-wrote and produced it with Tony Kushner. The film is a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on Spielberg's adolescence and first years as a filmmaker. The plot is told through an original story of the fictional Sammy Fabelman, a young aspiring filmmaker who explores how the power of films can help him see the truth about his dysfunctional family and those around him. It stars Gabriel LaBelle as Sammy, alongside Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Judd Hirsch in supporting roles. The film is dedicated to the memories of Spielberg's real-life parents, Leah Adler and Arnold Spielberg, who died in 2017 and 2020, respectively. [7]The scene where Sammy, while watching Mitzi and Burt announce their divorce to the family, sees a vision of himself filming this moment with his 8mm camera in the mirror over the mantelpiece, has been widely analyzed. Serena Irani of The Michigan Daily and David Sims of The Atlantic interpreted Sammy's emotional reaction in this scene as "transfixed as he is horrified by the notion, and perhaps the inevitable knowledge that he will one day make this film," relating it to how the divorce of Spielberg's parents in real life had a large impact on his work. [74] [75] Kayla Laguerre-Lewis of Screen Rant called the scene the one that drives home why Spielberg's films connect personally to his past, specifically his parents' divorce, comparing it to how the theme was handled in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). [76] It was also noted how the divorce, both in real life and in this film, may have also reflected Spielberg's being drawn to make Catch Me if You Can (2002) due to similarities between Sammy's use of filmmaking to escape the problems in his family and con artist Frank Abagnale's use of his actions to escape his own reality as a result of his own parents' break-up. [73] Release [ edit ] When asked about whether he would consider making a sequel to the film, Spielberg told W Magazine in February 2023: "I never say never, but I don't know what to do next. I was so emotionally invested in The Fabelmans, I left a vast body of water between myself and the next project. I didn't plan ahead at all. I haven't found my passion. And I can't work without passion. I won't." [166] During the virtual conversation with S. S. Rajamouli, Spielberg said that he will not rule out the possibility of a sequel, but confirmed that there are currently no immediate plans. [155] See also [ edit ]

When Steven Spielberg turns his attention to the subject of his own childhood, one sits up and takes notice. The revered director of Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List and countless other classics now brings us his most intensely personal project, The Fabelmans, fashioning a delicate and delightful ode to his own upbringing.Lawson, Richard (September 11, 2022). "Spielberg Shares an Emotional, Complex Self-Portrait In The Fabelmans". Vanity Fair . Retrieved October 14, 2022. And many of the reviewers responded particularly enthusiastically to the final scene of the aged director John Ford (played by David Lynch) giving the teenage Fabelman unforgettable advice about where to put the horizon in a picture. “He reveals to the boy that cinema is above all an art of disequilibrium and only idiots put the horizon in the middle of the frame. And if one is going to find a moral in The Fabelmans, it would probably be that,” concluded Première’s critic. The Fabelmans' Review: Steven Spielberg Crafts Another Moving Masterpiece With His Autobiographical Tale - TIFF 2022". Collider. September 11, 2022. Soon after arriving in his new neighborhood and school, Sammy becomes targeted by students Logan and Chad, who levy antisemitic abuse toward him. He also begins dating the devoutly Christian Monica. While having dinner with the Fabelmans, she suggests that Sammy film their Ditch Day at the beach, something he eventually accepts after Monica tells him her father owns a 16mm Arriflex camera that he would let him use. a b Jacobs, Matthew (December 22, 2022). "How 'The Fabelmans' Star Gabriel LaBelle Perfected Spielberg's Smile". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 24, 2022.

Chang, Justin (September 11, 2022). "Toronto Film Festival launches two must see movies in 'The Fabelmans' and 'Glass Onion' ". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 14, 2022. Coyle, Jake (September 12, 2022). "A big break comes with a big task: Playing Steven Spielberg". The Washington Post . Retrieved September 19, 2022.a b "8 Connections Between 'The Fabelmans' and Steven Spielberg's Other Movies". Collider. January 17, 2023.