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Steven Spielberg
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
The Terminal (2004)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Has all the mechanized ingenuity of one of those dazzling Tripods, but the bigger they are....it's the gutless ending that renders
War of the Worlds
most insulting.
Munich (2005)
The man's increasingly crazifying attempts to make serious films are still nothing more than good movies. Perhaps only Spielberg could fail so spectacularly well.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The eventual arrival of towering screen presence Sean Connery as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. alongside Harrison Ford as Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. allows for what may be adventure cinema's most potent pairing.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
If it was a sign of the times for Indiana Jones to take on more of a comic-book aspect, the film's accomodation of darker themes and explicit imagery came as something of a shock to many.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The postmodern heir to
North By Northwest...
like any deathless classic,
Raiders
is a perfect marriage of star and material.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
George Lucas adopted a new mantra: 'It's only a movie, it's only a movie, it's only a movie.' And he's right. It'll certainly do for a Friday night. But to...fans, the 1980s films are more than movies.
War Horse (2011)
'How Green Was My Valley, How Smart Was My Horse.'
Lincoln (2012)
Day-Lewis...wears well the weariness of the office and Lincoln's puckish yet subdued sense of humor, scaling the man closer to life-size than Mount Rushmore monumental.
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Steven Spielberg goes into Stanley Kramer mode for
Bridge of Spies
, a socially conscious tale of touch-and-go diplomacy at home, at the office, and on the global stage.
The BFG (2016)
Largely lifeless, which is unusual for fantasy material birthed by Roald Dahl or directed by Steven Spielberg, much less a combination of the two.
Ready Player One (2018)
Conjures plenty of empty spectacle...but doesn’t underpin it with characters that move beyond the generic or, more crucially, the productively sharp satire that just maybe could have saved this ain’t-it-cool story from itself.
The Post (2017)
The heroic journalism depicted in
The
Post
could hardly be more timely, it’s true, but Spielberg’s take rarely achieves dramatic traction.
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