"I guess the rest of us really are just suckers" becomes a mantra for Leonardo DiCaprio's Frank Abagnale Jr, a pilot, doctor, lawyer, cheque expert - and conman! In this ultimate fake-it-'til-you-make-it story, Steven Spielberg takes a telephoto lens to family discord, juvenile criminality, and 1960s America, elements which have recurred throughout his filmography and rings even truer on the heels of his 2022 biopic The Fabelmans. Don't catch yourself staring at the pinstripes too much, as your hosts revel in Janusz Kaminski's warm, to-lit cinematography, the cocksure myth making of Spielberg and his subject, and the construction of Americana so ephemeral it can hardly be said to have existed at all...
Fernando F. Croce's Article on ReverseShot - My Son The Birdman
