The Fabelmans

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The Fabelmans

PG-13

2022

2h 31m

Drama

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Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.

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Critics Consensus

Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The Fabelmans finds Steven Spielberg digging at the family roots that helped make him a beloved filmmaker -- and proves he hasn't lost his magic touch.

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The Fabelmans may be slow in spots, but Spielberg's nostalgic look at his childhood will take plenty of viewers back to their own.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

09/18/2024

5/5

With all its self-awareness, its anguish and its beauty, The Fabelmans is a film that it is surely impossible not to love.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

02/10/2023

3/5

Even though the film is based on Spielberg's life, it manages quite artfully to not feel too artful; it refuses to turn itself into a fable.

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Anupama Chopra

Film Companion

02/10/2023

The Fabelmans is a film that shifts something inside you. Working through one of the most crushing events of his own life, Spielberg exhorts us to discover, yet again, the enduring magic of the movies.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 27

3.5/4

An origin story that’s both sweet and bittersweet.

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Cate Young

Thirty, Flirty + Film

Nov 5

In some ways, The Fabelmans is a movie about making The Fabelmans. It may seem counterintuitive, but the film is essentially a record of its own existence — a retelling of why Spielberg needed to create stories in the first place.

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Ray Greene

CineGods.com

Oct 14

3/4

A creation myth for Spielberg the filmmaker, whose creative vocation is plausibly depicted as a kind of therapy for all the things in life the child of a broken home can’t control.

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critical contemporary

11/09/2024

No guts, no glory. Steven Spielberg has proven once again that he will almost for certain never be a true tour because he never really gets what’s happening in his own head. He cannot connect to the real world that said it’s also why he is one of the greatest filmmakers of all times. But this film is not his best. In fact it is one of his worst. Worst of all it’s a lie.

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ken elkgrove

03/25/2023

tom hanks great actor

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Shirley

03/15/2023

We loved that the people were real. The family was living toward each other. The drama which tore them apart happens. But, there was no hateful language or violence towards each other. We would have loved to see the later part of their lives. There needs to be a part ll made.

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rocktrim

03/14/2023

probably would have enjoyed more if i knew the backstory a little better. the movie felt like it was making the mom as the bad guy, when in fact, she was empowering them.

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Robert C

03/13/2023

One of the best movies Ive seen

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Deecie Z

03/13/2023

It was insightful to the person. I liked it.

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Synopsis

Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
Screenwriter: Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Amblin Partners, Universal Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Drug Use|Brief Violence|Some Strong Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 2022, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 13, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.3M
Runtime: 2h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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