The Most Underrated Steven Spielberg Movie of the 21st Century Heads to New Streaming Home

The Most Underrated Steven Spielberg Movie of the 21st Century Heads to New Streaming Home Steven Spielberg on set of BFGImage via Walt Disney By  Rahul Malhotra Published 21 minutes ago Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

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Director Steven Spielberg's career can be conveniently divided into broad categories. He's worked both consistently and successfully over the course of his decades-long career, but the last few years have been highly unusual for him, as they have for most other directors of his level. After directing one of his biggest (and most surprising) blockbusters, Ready Player One, and delivering a handful of mid-budget hits such as Bridge of Spies and The Post, Spielberg began putting together one of his dream projects — West Side Story. He'd never made a musical before, but despite earning excellent reviews, West Side Story flopped in theaters. For his follow-up project, Spielberg scaled down and delivered arguably his most underrated movie of the 21st century, The Fabelmans, which is set to debut on Peacock this December.

Based on his troubled youth, the film was hailed as a new masterpiece, but, like West Side Story, it underperformed at the box office. The Fabelmans debuted in 2022, and grossed just $45 million worldwide against a reported budget of $40 million. Spielberg cast newcomer Gabriel LaBelle as a younger version of himself, with Michelle Williams and Paul Dano as his parents, and Seth Rogen as an influential family friend. The Fabelmans is now sitting at a "certified fresh" 92% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The Fabelmans finds Steven Spielberg digging at the family roots that helped make him a beloved filmmaker -- and proves he hasn't lost his magic touch."

Steven Spielberg Is Returning to His Bread and Butter Next

In The Fabelmans, Spielberg addressed the parental issues of his childhood that have famously influenced so many of his films. But with two box office flops back-to-back, he's turned to a project with more mainstream appeal. He's now putting together a mysterious UFO movie that doesn't have a title yet, but certainly has a stacked cast. The upcoming film, set for release next year, is headlined by Emily Blunt, with Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson in supporting roles. The movie is written by his old collaborator David Koepp, and composed by the 93-year-old legend John Williams. You can watch The Fabelmans on Peacock beginning December 11, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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The Fabelmans

Like Follow Followed PG-13 Drama Release Date November 23, 2022 Runtime 151 minutes Director Steven Spielberg Writers Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner

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The Fabelmans is a film loosely based on the life of a young Steven Spielberg, with Gabriel Labelle playing the role of 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman. Fictionalizing but treading essential moments in the director's life, The Fabelmans is set in the 1960s with the titular family moving from New Jersey to California, where a dark secret begins to cause the life of young Sammy to unravel. To escape the reality he's faced with, he turns to films and reinforces a new dream - the aspiration of becoming a filmmaker. The film allows the director and the audience to look back on the past and try to understand the motivations of family members' various actions by contextualizing them through the lens of film.

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