You are meant to love this film. Its what the mainstream film critic class tells you should do. In reality, this film is long and boring, its a chore to watch the entire thing. Its heavily steeped in the Baby Boom ethos, which is uninteresting to anyone under age 45.

There are so many "great filmmakers" who are cotemporaries of Spielberg it makes one wonder if any of them are that special. Aside from "Schiedler's List" which was a masterpiece, Spielberg has been hit or miss for decades now. Is a film that celebrates his entire life in the way this does really merited or compelling in 2023? Not really.

Many of events in this film are strange and hard to understand. The antisemitism, which one could see coming from frame one falls flat, I realize these are anecdotes of Spielberg, but there is no context to explain. There was antisemitism in American life in the 50s and 60s and that's unfortunate, but let's be clear, Jewish kids from well to do families were among the most privileged youngsters of the last 60 years.

This film smacks of Oscar Bait and no doubt there would be nominations. I won't recommend this to anyone.