
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.