The Fabelmans

oscars 2023 Mar. 9, 2023

The Year the Movies Died (Over and Over and Over Again)It was an exhausting season for cinephiles, who were constantly confronted with elegies for an art form that is very much alive.

By Alison Willmore

gold rush Mar. 9, 2023

All 54 Oscar-Nominated Movies (and Shorts), RankedSome are great, some are good, and some are genuinely terrible. Cue the montage music, because we’re starting from the bottom.

By Joe Reid

into it Mar. 7, 2023

Would It Kill You to See The Fabelmans?It’s not that the Oscars stopped nominating films you’ve seen, it’s that audiences’ tastes have changed.

By Sam Sanders

cheat sheet Mar. 1, 2023

How to Gossip About the 2023 OscarsEven (or especially) if you haven’t watched any of the movies.

By Joe Reid

awards season Jan. 24, 2023

Joyce Carol Oates Sure Tweets About The Fabelmans a LotFor reasons surely unrelated to awards season, the Blonde author has become Twitter’s staunchest critic of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated movie.

By Matthew Jacobs

oscar futures Jan. 20, 2023

Oscar Futures: Who Will Be Our Nomination-Morning Surprise?All Quiet on the Western Front and Paul Mescal once seemed like long shots but have proved their strength. Who can follow in their footsteps?

By Nate Jones

capeside high alum Jan. 4, 2023

There’s a Little Dawson’s Creek in Every Michelle Williams RoleCapeside, you will always be famous.

By Zoe Guy

awards szn Dec. 15, 2022

AARP Movie Award Noms Reveal That Grownups Love Spielberg and Butt Plug JokesEverything Everywhere All at Once and The Woman King scored big with adults.

By Jason P. Frank

awards season Dec. 8, 2022

National Board of Review Names Top Gun: Maverick Best Film of 2022Other wins include Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All at Once and both Banshees bros.

By Rebecca Alter

oscar futures Dec. 2, 2022

Oscar Futures: Is the Academy Ready to Forgive Will Smith?He’s banned from the ceremony for the next ten years, but could Will Smith nab a nomination for Emancipation anyway?

By Nate Jones

endings Nov. 24, 2022

The Fabelmans’ Brilliant David Lynch Cameo Is All About PerspectiveIt’s pitch-perfect casting that only deepens the film’s layers between reality and fiction, character and persona.

By Robert Daniels

vulture lists Nov. 23, 2022

Every Steven Spielberg Movie, RankedFrom Jaws to his latest, The Fabelmans, see where each of the director’s major works falls.

By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson

oscar futures Nov. 11, 2022

Oscar Futures: Is The Fabelmans Still Our Front-runner?Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical time capsule debuts on the back of a starry AFI Fest relaunch and a rapturous Academy screening.

By Nate Jones

profile Oct. 26, 2022

Gabriel LaBelle Is Suddenly Sorta SpielbergFor The Fabelmans, he beat out 2,000 actors to play a version of the famed director as a teen by embracing the meta-ness.

By Jackson McHenry

oscar futures Sept. 29, 2022

Welcome to the First Oscars of the Post-Slap EraWake up. It’s awards season again.

By Nate Jones

tiff 2022 Sept. 19, 2022

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans Wins Top Prize at TIFFPutting him on the path to his 20th Oscar nomination.

By Zoe Guy

she’s due Sept. 16, 2022

Will This Finally Be Michelle Williams’s Year?Williams is the emotional backbone of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, and this puts her in an Oscars sweet spot.

By Nate Jones

tiff 2022 Sept. 15, 2022

Don’t Worry, The Fabelmans Doesn’t Overdo the ‘Magic of Movies’ ShtickSteven Spielberg’s self-portrait is as endearing as it is indulgent.

By Alison Willmore

roma watch Sept. 15, 2022

Which of This Year’s Wannabe Romas Is the Most Roma-y?It’s shaping up to be a banner fall for directors doing Romas, with Armageddon Time, Empire of Light, and The Fabelmans.

By Nate Jones

trailer mix Sept. 11, 2022