I can respect that Spielberg's name is engraved in cinema history with many blockbuster and original movies he made through the years, but lately I feel that people have been blinded by his former great work..

Last year's "West Side Story" remake was simply underwhelming and now Fabelmans a story that couldn't be more boring and blend makes it yet again to the Academy Award nominations... It's your average family drama, a dysfunctional group of people that navigate through their privileged lives while dealing with love triangles, teenage dramas, coming of age issues and all you expect from such a movie.

Since this is supposed to be a semi-autobiography of Spielberg's life I was expecting a more deep connection to his passion for movie making, yet I don't feel it was depicted like that, there's a lot of focus on the family and their regular problems and that's it... I wasn't able to get any empathy for any of the characters, it just feels like a long drama movie I couldn't wait to be over.

The acting is all right but many parts feels like over the top and messy not sure if that was the goal but it just feels unnatural, plus the most ridiculous thing of all, how on Earth regardless how good he was, does Judd Hirsch get an Oscar nomination for less than 5 minutes of screen time, is this really necessary? Feels like the Academy is including Spielberg's movies for the sake of tradition, nothing in the movie is Oscar worthy..

Maybe I'm being too harsh but that's my honest feeling of this movies, a really average flick that happens to have good actors and a house hold name director...