Review: Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans"
A war for autobiographical supremacy between Spielberg the cinematic master and Spielberg the cloying sentimentalist
If they live long enough, many if not most great filmmakers wind up making a reflexive piece about their life and/or art: Fellini’s 8 ½ , Tarkovsky’s Mirror, Kurosawa’s Dreams, Malick’s The Tree of Life, Cuarón’s Roma, or (in a slightly more oblique way), Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises. That Steven Spielberg would eventually join these ranks was probab…
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