Loosely inspired by the story of director Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans tells the story of Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), who loved cinema as a child and, little by little, becomes a filmmaker while living with a dysfunctional family.

Spielberg is one of the greatest movie director and the critic love when some like him put his heart in an autobiography movie. But The Fabelmans is a bit too much.

The characters seem very cartoonish. The script develops with little focus and no conflict. It's just a weird rich family having fun: going for a walk, having dinner together, etc. Here's a movie that desperately needed more conflict. What a character wants and cannot. Or two want the same thing. The Fabelmans ends up looking like a boring movie, where nothing happens, for most of the time.

When, finally, a conflict arises, Sammy discovers something surprising about his parents, it is soon resolved. And we're back to a long drama about nothing. It's too much to want a 2h30 movie with little disagreement beetwen the characters besides the predictable growth of the portagonist

They could have problem with money? With thieves? Others womens? Drugs? Health?

It seems more like a personal achievement of Steven Spielberg. It's not for anyone. 4/10.