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Spielberg

Summary The life and career of director Steven Spielberg is the focus of Susan Lacy's documentary that includes behind-the-scene clips and interviews with the filmmaker himself, as well as friends and colleagues such as J.J. Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Pa...

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Spielberg

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 7, 2017
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary The life and career of director Steven Spielberg is the focus of Susan Lacy's documentary that includes behind-the-scene clips and interviews with the filmmaker himself, as well as friends and colleagues such as J.J. Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Pa...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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83
Sep 29, 2017
The overall effect is a worthwhile appreciation of one of Hollywood's all-time greats. [6 Oct 2017, p.55]
By Kevin P. Sullivan FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 9, 2017
Spielberg's unabashed honesty about his accomplishments, failures and frailties ties a bow on all of it.
By Melanie McFarland FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 6, 2017
Mostly, though, with its penetrating look at a career that now spans half a century, Spielberg enriches a series of films that you--or, at least, some of us--never get tired of thinking about. It’s like HBO’s free-flowing version of a PBS “American Masters” doc.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 29, 2017
Terrifically entertaining and tremendously moving, yet also critical at times, biography. [2-15 Oct 2017, p.14]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 9, 2017
It’s a testimony to Spielberg’s career that a two-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life and work could both feel too long in some places and yet oddly inadequate in others.
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58
Oct 9, 2017
It’s somewhat refreshing to see a stolid, workmanlike profile acknowledge artistic shortcomings, or even to hear the director himself admit to chickening out when it came to sex in his adaptation of The Color Purple. And yet, Spielberg is such a known quantity that one almost wishes that this documentary had a contrarian streak, or at least tried to defend commercial and critical failures like 1941.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 5, 2017
The slavish adoration of Spielberg is something else--and a surprise, given the rigor with which HBO has generally conducted its documentary programming. ... Spielberg can be a feast for the eyes, even when the clips come from less-than-classic Spielberg films (“War Horse,” to name just one). The subject was as open as he needed to be during the reported 30 hours of interviews he gave Ms. Lacy.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW

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  • Pentimento Productions
Initial Release Date: Oct 7, 2017
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
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