‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Steven Spielberg’s Self-Reflexive Origin Story

Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’, Universal Pictures

Throughout his long career, Steven Spielberg has made many movies about spectacle. His most famous scenes feature characters looking at, or trying to look away from, the images that astonish them. Recall the moment in Jaws (1975) when Roy Scheider’s Chief Brody sees Alex Kintner (Jeffrey Voorhees) attacked by the shark, which Spielberg captures with a now iconic dolly…