Lalo ☮️’s review published on Letterboxd:
Noteworthy as his most personal film and for marking the end of his 50-year collaboration with John Williams, Spielberg's The Fabelmans finds him returning to the personal themes subtly present in Close Encounters and E.T. by presenting the family issues that have haunted him throughout his life that came to define him as a person and an artist (without the aliens). The Fabelmans triumphs not just because of Spielberg's honesty and empathy, but mainly because of his capability to understand how the issues he faced helped him develop his sensibilities, his approach to life, to filmmaking, and to continue to become a better person. Such display of maturity shows how this film couldn't have been made during his earlier years.
This makes for one of his finest films, and also his most down-to-Earth film to date; not as whimsical as his fantasy films, and also not as emotionally overwhelming as his other historical dramas; but still maintaining his signature sensibilities, because after all, that's who Steven Spielberg is.
94 / 100
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