Steven Spielberg is an American director whose diverse body of work ranges from the blockbuster thrills of Jurassic Park to the historical gravity of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. I have reviewed 10 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
H. G. Wells published The War of the Worlds in 1898, and the story has never quite left us alone since. Orson Welles sent radio listeners into a panic with his 1938 broadcast adaptation, Byron Haskin put it on screen in 1953, and Jeff Wayne turned it into a prog-
Rating: 4.5★
Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) arrives in his filmography as something of a pivot point, sandwiched between the rollicking adventure of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom the previous year and the science-fiction spectacle that bookended much of his early career. Based on Alice Walker&
Rating: 4.5★
The Omaha Beach sequence. Twenty-seven minutes of controlled chaos that still has the power to leave you genuinely shaking. I went back to Saving Private Ryan recently to see whether it held up after all this time, and the honest answer is: almost entirely, yes. From the moment that
Genre Action
★★★½ — Duel (1971)
Genre Science Fiction
★★★½ — Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Genre Science Fiction
★★★★ — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre Adventure
★★★ — The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Genre Adventure
★★★★ — Jurassic Park (1993)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre Horror
★★★★ — Jaws (1975)
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