The Fabelmans doesn"t entirely avoid playing to the crowd. When Mitzi"s Uncle Boris (a scenery-chewing Judd Hirsch) visits, he is too on the nose when he advises, "Art will tear your heart out." And at the moment Mitzi realises that her son has unearthed her secret, the camera stays on Williams"s face. The scene is taut, anguished, and also just a little too Oscar bait-y.