7 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay!
Golden Globes Winner 2023 – Best Picture (Drama) & Director!  

Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The Fabelmans finds director Steven Spielberg digging at the family roots that helped make him a beloved filmmaker — and proves he hasn’t lost his magic touch. In his retelling, young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth, the epic 1952 Cecile B. DeMille  circus-life drama. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother, played by Michelle Williams. (PG-13, 2h 31m) 

“This is Spielberg’s most personal film, and it’s intriguing to watch him pay homage to the directors who made up his group of friends in the early 1970s.”- Odie Henderson, Boston Globe

“…uplifting and yet deeply melancholy and really funny. Typical Spielberg. Pulling on multiple heartstrings at the same time, to great effect. “ – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Fabelmans is, as the title says, somewhat of a fable and wonderful in both large and small ways, even if Spielberg can’t help but soften the rougher, potentially lacerating edges.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times

92% RT Critics Consensus!

The story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are interrupted when a lively young family moves in next door, and he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol (Mariana Treviño ). She challenges him to see life differently, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world around. A heartwarming and funny story about love, loss, and life, A Man Called Otto shows that family can sometimes be found in the most unexpected places. Directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) with screenplay written by Academy Award® nominee David Magee (Life of Pi, 2012; Finding Neverland, 2004) and based upon the best-selling novel “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman, and the Swedish film A Man Called Ove by Hannes Holm. (PG-13, 126 m)

“The film has an easygoing, please-like-me quality that somehow never comes off as desperate but instead gives it a reassuring quality, like a mug of warm tea.” – Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

“Director Forster thankfully applies a fairly restrained, subtle approach. The result is a film to which you ultimately find yourself succumbing even though you never stop being aware that your heartstrings are being shamelessly pulled.” – Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

Sunday, February 5th at 7pm!
A Second Presbyterian Benefit Showing at the Naro for the Norfolk Street Choir Project

Coming in February!

We are pleased to once again be presenting a compendium of this year’s Oscar-nominated short films.

Each nominee is released in one of three distinct feature-length compilations according to their category of nomination: Live Action, Animation, and Documentary. See official website for nominees.

The films will be presented during the weeks before the 2023 Academy Awards event. The theatrical release of the nominated short films each year is the world’s largest commercial release of short films on the planet, delighting audiences and giving filmmakers unprecedented opportunity to entertain short film fans.

In recent years, the Oscar® Nominated Short Films have been released in over 700 theaters across the US and Canada, garnering reviews in every major news outlet, from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Deadline to The New York Times and the Huffington Post. The films have also been released annually in a growing number of theaters around the world, including the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, China and Australia among others, making it a truly international release.