The Fabelmans (2022)
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth (imdb.com).
Cast and Information
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
Starring: Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, Oakes Fegley, Chloe East, Gabriel LaBelle, Julia Butters, Keeley Karsten, Sam Rechner, Mateo Zoryan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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The Fabelmans belongs to 15 collections
1. Academy Award - Oscar - Best Picture and Nominees (collaborative: moderated by smviper00 - 44 stars)
2. AAA: Empire's five star movies (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 24 stars)
3. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
4. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
5. Golden Globes: Best Picture - Drama (collaborative: moderated by CCLZA - 5 stars)
6. Oscar Nominations 2023 (public: BeeDub - 4 stars)
7. 0: On My Radar (public: KasperL - 3 stars)
8. Golden Globes: Best Director (collaborative - 2 stars)
9. Available on Divicast (collaborative: moderated by Dunstan-xxx)
10. 80th Golden Globe Nominees (2022) (collaborative: moderated by elhenzo)
11. 90+ (public: Daria)
12. C-2020 (public: cantahta)
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Moribunny | 35 19th |
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I'll spoiler the ending: John Ford ends up giving Sammy (young Spielberg) a lesson about where to place the horizon to make it interesting; it's too bad there wasn't anyone in Hollywood to teach him how to make a character interesting. As a semi-autobiography, The Fablemans is a feel-good coming-of-age cliché, occasionally amusing but thoroughly manufactured and utterly dishonest. With Sammy coursing through his youth easing past fake adversities, it hasn't a glimmer of introspection.
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AAAutin | 49 45th |
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Finally reveals what George C. Scott's character saw during that infamous theater scene in HARDCORE: a married woman lightly flirting with a family friend. "Turn it off. TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFFFFFF!!!"
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BillyShears | 80 77th |
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Rock me, rock me, rock me sexy Jesus He died for our sins, you gotta believe us Rock me, rock me, rock me sexy Jesus All night long Pleasant movie, the best moments are obviously about making movies. I'm not surprised Spielberg spent the entire time filming this crying. Everytime I see Judd Hirsch in a new movie I gasp that he's still alive. Greedily soaking in all this Spielberg schmaltz, ladle me a second serving.
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Neonman | 68 32nd |
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Rather good to begin with for the first 20 or so minutes, when it's actually about the whole movie-making. But the film then decides to be about "life" and has so much else going on with its young protagonist growing up, including family issues, mental illnesses, infidelity, school yard bullying, anti-semitism, first loves, and hardly any of it is as intriguing as the moviemaking side, with both its excitement and its haunting revelations and misrepresentation that comes along with it.
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CosmicMonkey | 73 41st |
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This film got a giant "Meh" from me. I mean, It's fine, possibly even good. All-in-all it's a decent bildungsroman, but at the end it's formulaic and predictable and has little to say about anything expect corny speeches about the POWER OF CINEMA.
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krf7 | 50 26th |
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An extremely earnest and hokey script that leaves nothing to the audience's imagination. Has all the subtlety of an anvil over the head, especially in that dreadful post-Prom confrontation. I did see glimpses of a great film in the final scene with his father in LA. Overall, Spielberg could've learned a thing or two from his younger self doing the long take of the pensive soldier jock walking amongst the faux corpses. That scene in the fake movie had more layers than the actual one!
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PetrosTser | 50 19th |
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"The Fabelmans" starts off on the right foot by affectionately showcasing the magic of cinema. The camera goes for some captivating angles, and if there's one man who can make a toy train fascinating, it's Spielberg. However, the film goes downhill from there. It focuses on the titular family's issues too much and is undoubtedly overlong and occasionally cheesy, the story beats are predictable and cliched, the acting's underwhelming, and all characters except the protagonist are one-dimensional.
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P u l p | 32 19th |
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I use 2x playback speed option for Spielberg's movies, it makes them better.
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| 2 | OlivVerdys | 20 34th |
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How to add to the other negative reviews: Where we discover Spielberg is a closet exhibitionnist with a case of borderline sociopathy, or at least extreme misanthropy, who enjoys abasing us into voyeurism. Compare this with Tarkovsky's treatment of his childhood and his mother/grandmother in Mirror. "Your mom...." would be disgusted Spielberg!
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| 1 | braddad68 | 96 91st |
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Though this should be of particular interest to those of us who love the process of filmmaking, it's also simply a great family drama. Basically, an autobiographical look at Steven Spielberg's young life.
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warrensm | 97 91st |
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If you love Steven Spielberg and are pursuing a filmmaking career, this is a movie that you need to see. This is the kind of film that inspires a filmmaker the same way that the main character in here was inspired.
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joel-w-m | 7 64th |
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A nice collection of vignettes on the power of the stories we see and show (highlights include Uncle Boris' rant on family and art and the confrontation in the school hallway-"Why'd you make me look like that?"), not to mention some fun looks at the ins and outs of filmmaking (see the perfect-well, eventually-final shot). Amidst the compelling family drama, though, the central character arc could've used a few more incising elements like that shot where he imagines himself shooting his own life.
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jacobclark12 | 95 93rd |
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Brilliant. Restrained. Honestly dramatic and heartbreaking without being a nostalgia piece. This shows me so much about all of Steven Spielberg's filmography, and it also shows a director who still hasn't lost his touch after all these years. The brilliant turns from the three leads make this feel lived-in and naturalistic, while the lack of over-the-top melodrama is shocking yet very welcome in a film about filmmaking. One of the best things this stellar director has ever done.
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howler19 | 68 76th |
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The film is beautiful and you can tell it was made with a lot of heart. It is structured like real life is in a way; a series of random events. This has a certain charm but it also becomes limiting when the audience doesn’t have the emotional connection to these events as Spielberg does.
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| 1 | doyler29 | 80 64th |
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I think Michelle Williams and Paul Dano give really extraordinary performances, investing their characters with more depth than what's on the page. Judd Hirsch and David Lynch has wonderful cameo roles. It's a really beautifully crafted film, and it's nice to see Spielberg step into what feels like fundamentally new territory. I just wish the film felt infused with the kind of love of film it purports to be about.
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| Average Percentile 62.82% from 407 Ratings |  |