Can't help wondering if it would have been better if someone with a bit of emotional distance had made this film. Certainly not Spielberg's strongest. Just simply not much of a story to tell and if there wasn't the big name attached, frankly, quite boring. Also, full of that American sentimentalism, and far too smooth. Where is the grit, the edge, the challenge. Some of the elements so predictsble, so sign-posted you can see them coming a mile away. And some of the episodes almost unbearably cliched, the dialogues stilted, the message of optimism and 'follow your dream' so stereotypical. Finally, the ending: abrupt, almost mid-sentence, so either a sequel to come, or just ran out of ...
Review of The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
