“When Spielberg’s instincts are at their best, the fable-making and visual gorgeousness and rightness of the film craft are the best we have,” writes Tribune critic Michael Phillips.
From left, Paul Dano, Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord and Michelle Williams in"The Fabelmans," co-written, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg.
The theater seats clutched for dear life during “Jaws”; the tears shed at the end of “E.T.”; the larger 20th-century canvas of genocide and the slaughter of war in “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan”: In wildly varying registers of escapism and seriousness, Spielberg has grabbed a worldwide audience and held it in his grip. Now, with “The Fabelmans,” he has gone back to the boy with the movie camera he once was.
In “The Fabelmans,” Sammy Fabelman is split into two actors, Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord in the earlier scenes, Gabriel LaBelle for the teenage edition. In the exquisite opening minutes, Sammy, his mother Mitzi and his father Burt drive home to New Jersey after the movie, Sammy’s eyes in perma-wide fear of what he’s just witnessed on a very large screen.
She’s a pianist as well as a trained dancer. In a key sequence, the Fabelman family — parents, son, three daughters, plus the conspicuous presence of a dear family friend, “Uncle” Bennie, played by Seth Rogen — take a camping trip together. At one point, after Sammy has discovered the reason his parents have been growing apart, Mitzi dances alone at night, spot-lit by the family car’s headlights. This scene, I think, shows us how Spielberg wants to remember what did actually happen.
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