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100This movie made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as hell.
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100Always 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.
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100Beaming back on screens for its 20th anniversary, holds up spectacularly well.
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100An all-time classic that seems even better after two decades.
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100If 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.
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100Music for the eyes. That's why it has become a treasured classic. That's why we'll see it again and again.
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100It's one modern film worthy of being called a contemporary classic.
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100The least fussy great movie ever made.
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100Just as moving, uplifting and funny as ever in its slightly modified form.
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100In 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.
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100One of the loveliest and happiest of American movie entertainments.
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100Unchecked 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.
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100Seeing 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.
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100Watching 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.
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100Had 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.
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100A sophisticatedly sappy masterpiece that bucked the prevailing Hollywood vision of aliens as nasty invaders and recast them as friendly collectibles for children.
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100Spielberg wrote a poem. And all the best movies are poems. [25 Mar 2002, p. 86]
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90The 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.
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83It's a fascinating look into what Spielberg truly loves, but it's not so much a masterpiece as a nice milestone.
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80One of the most popular movies ever made, E.T. translates religious myth into cute, familiar terrain.
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80When 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.
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80We'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).
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75Doesn't make it a masterpiece, but it's fun.
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75A 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.
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60The story itself holds up fairly well though, twenty years later, does come off as thinner than I recalled.
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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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E.T. is an heartwarming family hit and it will cherrish moviegoers of all ages.
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zeyadk10An excellent film directed by a master.
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