The HBO documentary Spielberg is a lot like some of the legendary director's films: it's well-made, thoughtful, emotional and maybe a little long.

| Jun 25, 2018

Though Spielberg could do with a sequel, for now it's a useful retrospective of a filmmaker whose influence on cinema cannot be overstated.

| Oct 10, 2017

Lacy has mined everything, it seems, except perhaps too little naysaying.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 9, 2017

This is a documentary that could and should be shown in film schools.

| 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.

| Oct 9, 2017

Ehat do its 145 minutes (an appropriately Spielberg-ian chunk of time) really tell us about Steven Spielberg, aside from the fact that the man has made a lot of movies? Not much.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 8, 2017

Lacy consistently seduces us through its two and a half hour running time without ever slackening the energy or glossing over his shortcomings.

| Oct 8, 2017

Spielberg still feels like a respectful appreciation of a beloved figure more than an insightful study. There's nothing wrong with that, but ... it's also OK to ask for more.

| Original Score: B | Oct 7, 2017

To anyone who has grown up consuming Spielberg's work, Lacy has delivered a documentary that will speak to them too -- one that at its best approximates the feeling of the last 40-some-odd years of movie-making flashing before your eyes.

| Oct 7, 2017

This is a fitting and thorough tribute to a director whose work has left an enormous footprint on the popular culture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 6, 2017

A remarkable look at what shaped both Spielberg's art and the man who created it.

| Oct 6, 2017

The Steven Spielberg portrayed in Susan Lacy's satisfyingly comprehensive 2 1/2 -hour HBO documentary "Spielberg" is a wide-open book.

| Oct 6, 2017

A totally effective guided tour of his life and works, playing all of the greatest hits along the way, but it's also a relatively safe one, choosing to speed past some notable disappointments.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 6, 2017

Spielberg shows the extraordinary life of a cinephile turned director, whose work has left an indelible mark, one that's perhaps so entrenched that we often fail to notice it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2017

Spielberg will make movie lovers happy, or, more accurately, just remind them how happy its subject made them in the past.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2017

Insightful and surprisingly intimate.

| Oct 6, 2017

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.

| Oct 6, 2017

After 2 1/2 hours of genuflecting, Spielberg may well leave viewers asking what exactly was the point

| Oct 5, 2017

For all its sweep, Spielberg the documentary succeeds most distinctively where Mr. Spielberg the director has: accessing the child in its subject.

| Oct 5, 2017

What's most revealing, here, is his self-awareness, the way that he anticipates and acknowledges what we suspect about him just from viewing the films.

| Oct 4, 2017