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Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Conversation

The Fabelmans fact and fiction: Steven Spielberg’s childhood

In The Fabelmans Spielberg tells the story of his early life

Evening Standard

The Fabelmans: Steven Spielberg spins his origin story into a warm, witty, wonderfully moving fable of family and filmmaking

The Fabelmans gives a sense of the fraught family dynamics and childhood experiences that shaped the director’s talent for spectacle, terror and delight in movies such as Jaws, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.

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

The director’s alter ego grows up with despairing parents, inspirational mentors and a yearning to make movies.

Chicago Sun-Times

Q&A: Tony Kushner on playing therapist to Steven Spielberg

“The Fabelmans” is Steven Spielberg’s most autobiographical movie, but the introspection it required wasn’t done in isolation

The Independent UK

Movie review: Steven Spielberg turns lens on his childhood in 'The Fabelmans'

“I need to see them crash.” These are the first fated words of a future filmmaker, Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord), whispered to his mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams) after he’s crashed his toy train after bedtime, inspired by his very first big-screen cinematic experience, “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Mitzi…

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The Fabelmans movie review: Spielberg’s cinematic superpower gets its origin story at Toronto

The semi-autobiographical self-portrait premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous applause

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