The Fabelmans

Sammy Fabelman sees The Greatest Show on Earth and starts making pictures in the house, and the camera begins to notice things the family has not said. Spielberg tells it as his own beginning without pretending the marriage is a backdrop. Gabriel LaBelle plays Sammy. Michelle Williams’s Mitzi is the parent who understands the camera and is also the person it catches. Paul Dano’s Burt wants a practical life. The Universal trailer is the train set. The film is the edit Sammy does not show at dinner.