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Marshall Shaffer
Dec 04, 2022
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Last month, I found myself in a conversation with someone prominent in the film world who asked what I was most anticipating for the rest of the year. The only title I could muster in the moment was Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, which I had yet to screen at that time. I then added a bit of a qualifier: I wasn’t just excited in a fanboy-ish way. I wa…

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