Kathleen Kennedy

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Dec 16, 2001Cute Alien
Perhaps the greatest children's film ever made, the story of the affection between a lonely boy and a stranded alien. Steven Spielberg paints in beautiful, tender emotions from the heart that can only not touch the most cynical
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Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
May 9, 2001Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
An enormous hit for Steven Spielberg who took new emergent CGI technologies and wowed audiences with dinosaurs brought to life in dazzlingly realistic detail. It doesn't hurt that he delivers a relentlessly suspenseful film too
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Congo (1995)

Congo (1995)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 30, 2001Lost City of Intelligent Apes/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Following the success of Jurassic Park, a host of other Michael Crichton books were filmed, including this not entirely successful but not uninteresting work where Crichton attempts to modernise the lost world adventure
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Twister (1996)

Twister (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 6, 2002Tornado Chasers
After the massive success of Jurassic Park, anything with Michael Crichton's name on it was hot property. This is made from his script about tornado chasers and is a rather entertaining film made with no other purpose that to keep producing a series of spectacular mass destruction scenes on an ever-expanding scale
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The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Rating: ★★★★½
Aug 14, 1999Child Medium
The film that made the name of M. Night Shyamalan and still a strong and spooky story despite the variability of Shyamalan's offerings since then. What made the film a classic was its twist ending, something that has been relentlessly copied by numerous genre films since
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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (2001)

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (2001)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jun 29, 2001Android Boy’s Quest
Steven Spielberg directs an unfinished Stanley Kubrick project about an android boy's quest. The result is a beautiful and intelligent SF film where the sensibilities of either director merge with magnificent results
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Jurassic Park III (2001)

Jurassic Park III (2001)
Rating: ★★
Jul 20, 2001Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
Steven Spielberg handed the directorial reins of the series over to Joe Johnston and this emerges as a better film than The Lost World was, even if it is only ever arranged around a series of effects set-pieces
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War of the Worlds (2005)

War of the Worlds (2005)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 2, 2005Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation
Steven Spielberg remakes the classic H.G. Wells alien invasion story, liberally rewriting it for the post-9/11 world. Not Spielberg's best film but a more than solid work on most grounds
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 30, 2008Man Ages in Reverse
David Fincher makes a surprisingly positive and upbeat Academy Awards crowd-aimed film in which Brad Pitt is a man who ages in reverse, born as an old man and progressively getting younger as he goes through life
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 20, 2011Animation/Comic-Book Character
Steven Spielberg makes a solid effort to bring Hergé's much loved comic-book character to life in this motion-capture animated effort. This plays free and easy with the original stories but generally gets the spirit of the comics right
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Rating: ★★
Dec 8, 2018Star Wars Spinoff Film
The second of the Stars Wars spinoff films tells a Han Solo origin story. After a change of directors, it emerges in the hands of Ron Howard who has spent four decades being the world's most ploddingly sedate director
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 9, 2023Adventure Film
At age 80, Harrison Ford returns for what looks like being the last ever Indiana Jones film. It’s not perfect but when you compare to all the other contemporary franchises, this still has the good old adventure spirit
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The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 1, 2026Star Wars Spinoff Film
A spinoff film from The Mandalorian tv series, this is the best film set in the Star Wars universe this side of the 2000s for the simple reason that it has invested in characters rather than slavish fanboy callbacks
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