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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 15

  God I'm so mad I never thought of teen Spielberg's trick where he rigs a wooden board on a lever to simulate dirt explosions when he's shooting his war movie but then I also have to remember that he's Steven Spielberg and I am a dumb idiot

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  Review by kársten ★★★★½

  goes above and beyond what you normally expect from a movie about movies. cheesy and over-sentimental at times but i wouldn’t want it any other way. if this is spielberg’s last i cannot think of a better shot to end on. one of the best of the year, easily. and this is all referring to the david lynch scene specifically, rest of the movie is good too

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★ 33

  Film students watching this and being like “he just like me fr”

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  Review by kársten ★★★★½

  watching this with my parents was a crazy choice

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  Review by Thomas Flight ★★★★½ 16

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  So glad he got to meet the greatest film director of all time, David Lynch.

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Imagine getting cucked by Seth Rogen

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  Review by Reece ★★★★½ 1

  guy who really loves making movies (spielberg) makes a movie about a guy who really loves making movies (also spielberg)

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 20

  dad

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 7

  Do what your heart says you have to, because you don't owe anyone your life

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  Review by clarerey ★★★★½ 10

  hmmm maybe my favorite final shot….ever??

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★★★★ 6

  Life ain’t like the movies. And yet the movies help us hold onto life. Spielberg’s whole heart is up on that screen.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 31

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  “You do what your heart says you have to. 'Cause you don't owe anyone your life. Not even me.”

  In The Fabelmans, our main character is torn between the Illusion of truth and the reality of memory. At the beginning of the film, during a viewing of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, we see a young Sammy terrified while watching a train crash on the silver screen. Although he cannot control what he sees, he’s engrossed all the same. He knows that it isn’t real but the illusion is too strong to be ignored.

  For Hanukkah, Sammy asks for a toy train set just so he can crash the train, again and again. After his mother…