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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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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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100An all-time classic that seems even better after two decades.
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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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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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100Just as moving, uplifting and funny as ever in its slightly modified form.
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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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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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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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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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100Beaming back on screens for its 20th anniversary, holds up spectacularly well.
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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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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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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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100Spielberg wrote a poem. And all the best movies are poems. [25 Mar 2002, p. 86]
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100One of the loveliest and happiest of American movie entertainments.
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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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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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Positive: 32 out of 43
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Negative: 9 out of 43
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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.