Spielberg has never been amongst the more innovative and compelling of story-telling moviemakers and this sorely shows in this way overlong self-indulgent lazy movie void of insight nor any original nostalgia.

Technically competent melodrama. That'd be the only apt reason to watch it.

Everything about it appears and sounds cliched, seen and done before, and even if I were a Fabelman relative I would find it pretentiously showy and tiresome, at the end of which I'd give an equally pretentious polite clap-clap with a wry smile.

Plenty of bad lines, but a relatively good one would be - "sticking your head in a lion's mouth is balls, not letting the lion bite your head off is art."

Chug-a-chug, awards awards, empty empty, clap clap, next please.