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The Fablemans (2022) - 9/10
Out of the nominees for best picture of 2022 i can say with relative ease this was it and its a travesty it got completely snubbed. Spielberg has made a career out of making movies. Great movies too. Some say Jaws stands as a perfect movie. Then there's Close Encounters of the Third Kind/ET/Indiana Jones/Jurassic Park/Saving Private Ryan etc etc etc just a string of wonderful movies.
Spielberg has gotten serious a few timesand ventured out of movies and into film. The previously mentioned Private Ryan, a telling of his fathers war. Again in Schindler's List, a telling of his people's war. The Fablemans is his telling of himself. Its without question his most personal picture and he does it by making a really intimate movie that works in the light way that he likes but in a very serious dramatic level and its able to nimbly weave through these lanes at will.
And it mages to capture whats special about film. How it exposes truth. How it delights. How it inspires. How it hurts. How its makes us laugh, love, cry. How art moves us. This is Spielberg at his most authentic. No doubt the efforts of man who is looking back and missing those he's lost along the way.
And most importantly sometimes the horizon goes in the middle even if the academy cant see it.
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