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12
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Critic Reviews
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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