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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘The Fabelmans’: Steven Spielberg, master of the spectacular, gets personal with a magical opus depicting a childhood like his

Teenage Sammy (Gabriel LaBelle) looks over footage in “The Fabelmans.” (Universal Pictures)

Movies are dreams that you never forget.

This is what Sammy Fabelman’s mother tells him at the outset of Steven Spielberg’s magical and sprawling mid-20th century semi-autobiographical opus “The Fabelmans,” and that is what the 75-year-old Spielberg has been doing in such remarkable fashion for a half-century now: creating iconic and indelible dreams, nightmares, illusions, flights of fancy and unforgettable touchstone moments that stay with us for weeks, months, years and decades.

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