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Critic Reviews
Oct 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
“Spielberg” has the feel of official business, with the man himself happily participating in long conversations about his creative process, while dozens of other sources--his 100-year-old father, Arnold, and his mother, Leah, who died at 97 in February; his siblings, peers, longtime collaborators, actors, film critics and historians--supply their own observations and asides. It also features a thrilling, chronological examination of his movies.
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Oct 6, 2017
TV Guide MagazineSep 29, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Terrifically entertaining and tremendously moving, yet also critical at times, biography. [2-15 Oct 2017, p.14]
IndieWireOct 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Despite an onslaught of every relevant artistic and familial connection to the man in focus, “Spielberg” still feels like a respectful appreciation of a beloved figure more than an insightful study. There’s nothing wrong with that, but whenever such unprecedented access is given, it’s also OK to ask for more.
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Oct 5, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Spielberg is laudatory but not unreservedly so. ... Before Ms. Lacy shows you Mr. Spielberg’s movies, she shows you the movies through his eyes. For all its sweep, Spielberg the documentary succeeds most distinctively where Mr. Spielberg the director has: accessing the child in its subject.
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RogerEbert.comOct 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
When Lacy starts to tie thematic ribbons around multiple films in Spielberg’s career, her work has more power, especially when the filmmaker himself is open and willing to speak out how his relationship with his father influenced that thematic undercurrent in his work. There’s just enough of those insights to make "Spielberg" valuable--I just wish there were enough to make it great. For too much of "Spielberg," we’re treated to rapturous praise of the title subject.
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Oct 9, 2017
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Oct 10, 2017
Season 1 Review:
What’s disappointing about Spielberg is that it does far less digging into the intriguing later acts of his career; it doesn’t strive to move past the mythos and into the mind of an iconic artist who continues to make bold, challenging work. Spielberg isn’t quite a hagiography, nor does it completely lack insight into the man who became such an unstoppable pop-cultural force in the 1970s. But it does feel like a story many cineastes will have heard before, with just a little more detail shaded in.
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Oct 5, 2017
Season 1 Review:
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.
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