The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg) x TIFF 2022.

Spielberg crafts a beautiful and painfully honest portrait of his Jewish-American family balanced with his growing love for filmmaking and cinema. The Fabelmans is full of hard personal truths about marriage, infidelity, divorce, and artistic pursuits. It’s told with such reverence and understanding for its characters, especially for Williams’ conception of Spielberg’s free-spirited mother. It feels both so real and imagined all at the same time.