Female Film Critics 24/375
The creative life is a circus for an artist, with allures impossible to resist. Director Steven Spielberg’s semiautobiographical drama The Fabelmans shows his early fascination with movies; yet instead of making himself the focus—a portrait of the blockbuster pioneer as a young Steven, if you will—he crafts an intimate story that credits his parents as his inspiration.
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The Fabelmans presents director Steven Spielberg’s family story. Spielberg, who needs no introduction, has co-written, produced, and directed his most personal movie to date, the autobiographical The Fabelmans. Beginning January 10, 1952, in New Jersey, progressing through 1964 high school graduation, and concluding a year thereafter, the story profiles this family, anchored in Sammy, i.e., Steven. Beginning with his first film, Sammy is captivated.
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Lester D. Friedman’s Citizen Spielberg offers a serious, sustained, long overdue analysis of director Steven Spielberg’s entire filmography. Informed by a thorough knowledge of the wide-ranging criticism on Spielberg, Friedman assesses existing scholarship and, in many instances, establishes a fresh, insightful, and convincing new perspective. He fairly evaluates dismissive attitudes toward this prolific, popular director while offering a thoughtful, evenhanded consideration of Spielberg’s films.
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Cynthia Erivo is following up on her recent Oscar run by bringing her podcast Carrier to movie screens. The Tony, Grammy and Emmy winner will produce and star in the sci-fi thriller for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners.
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One of the most delicious things about Jordan Peele’s Us is how it opens: with a positively early-Spielbergian flourish of childhood wonder smothered by sad reality. And the rest of Us could be seen, in the sense that it is partly about the lingering aftereffects of childhood trauma, as a reply to early-Spielberg fantasies.
Read moreTop picks among this week’s opening films are Anne Fontaine’s harrowing post World War II drama, The Innocents, plus Steven
Read moreBlending live action and computer animation, Steven Spielberg has adapted Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale, featuring Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (“Bridge of
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