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28
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22
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16
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (re-release)
Universal Pictures
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG for language and mild thematic elements
Starring
Dee Wallace-Stone,
Henry Thomas,
Peter Coyote,
Robert MacNaughton,
Drew Barrymore,
K.C. Martel,
Sean Frye,
and
C. Thomas Howell
The 20th Anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg's classic tale of an extra-terrestrial who is accidentally left behind on earth and befriends a young boy and his family.
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Melissa Mathison
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Steven Spielberg
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 22, 2002
Video: October 22, 2002
Theatrical: March 22, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Best Original Score (John Williams), 1983 Academy Awards; #25 on American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Movies

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An all-time classic that seems even better after two decades.

100
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Unchecked goodness has its price, after all, and childhood wonder wouldn't be nearly as sweet if it didn't fade. That may explain the film's appeal. It trapped that feeling, and its sense of possibility, in amber -- then, now, and for any time.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A sophisticatedly sappy masterpiece that bucked the prevailing Hollywood vision of aliens as nasty invaders and recast them as friendly collectibles for children.

100
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Just as moving, uplifting and funny as ever in its slightly modified form.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This movie made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as hell.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The least fussy great movie ever made.
100
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Had the aura of an instant classic when it was released, and the good news is that it looks at least that good, if not better, on the eve of its 20th anniversary reissue.

100
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Watching E.T now, in an era dominated by cold, loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas, one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Always a magical film. For its anniversary rerelease, though, it's been extensively restored and even partly reshot by Spielberg. It now looks better than it did back then.

100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Seeing E.T. again reminds us of how much we've remained the same, how gratified we still are by a film that connects so beautifully to our sense of wonder and joy.

100
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Beaming back on screens for its 20th anniversary, holds up spectacularly well.
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
It's one modern film worthy of being called a contemporary classic.

100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Music for the eyes. That's why it has become a treasured classic. That's why we'll see it again and again.

100
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Spielberg wrote a poem. And all the best movies are poems. [25 Mar 2002, p. 86]
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
In E.T., Spielberg proved a herald of the age when moviegoers would make full-time friends with fantasy, but his most special effect was taking us into ourselves.

100
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
One of the loveliest and happiest of American movie entertainments.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
If we approach with sympathy and curiosity, we will be rewarded with same. And our souls, not to mention our bicycles, will soar to the heavens.

90
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
The film's real power to move flows from its low, childlike angles, which, rather than infantalize its audience, bring it down to where the hurt and fear, and hence the comfort, loom larger.

83
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
It's a fascinating look into what Spielberg truly loves, but it's not so much a masterpiece as a nice milestone.
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
When E.T. debuts on DVD, you can choose between the new version, which better matches E.T.'s words to his lips, and the sweetly clunky, digitally deprived version redolent of penis breath. I don't need to phone home to know which one I'm buying.

80
TV Guide
Staff (not credited)
One of the most popular movies ever made, E.T. translates religious myth into cute, familiar terrain.

80
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
We're told that this new version is tweaked and enhanced, with the E.T. puppet digitally smoothed out, and the guns in the meanies' hands removed (silly, but bravo).
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A fine picture because it can still, without fail, make an entire audience of children shut up and fall in love with a little green alien with big eyes and a turtlelike body.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Doesn't make it a masterpiece, but it's fun.

60
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
The story itself holds up fairly well though, twenty years later, does come off as thinner than I recalled.

60
Village Voice
Don McKellar
E.T. is a dog movie. Genre-wise, I mean. It's about a boy meeting a dog, naming it, taming it, learning from it, and growing up. Of course, the genre is superficially disguised as science fiction, as was the fashion at the time.


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