re: The Hollywood Reporter ranks Steven Spielberg's films from worst to best...

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1. Schindler's List
2. Minority Report
3. Jaws
4. Jurassic Park
5. Raiders

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You can argue over the order of the top 5, but I don't see how anyone can keep Saving Private Ryan out of there top 5.

Raiders of the Lost Ark at 14 makes this list complete rubbish. I can't read this publication ever again.

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West Side Story over Raiders? Sure Jan

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E. frickin' T. over Jaws?

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15. The Fabelmans (2022)
14. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
12.5. Poltergeist (1983)
12. The Color Purple (1985)
11. Jurassic Park (1993)
10. Empire of the Sun (1987)
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
8. Minority Report (2002)
7. Bridge of Spies (2015)
6. War Horse (2011)
5. West Side Story (2021)
4. Schindler's List (1993)
3. Munich (2005)
2. Jaws (1975)
1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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1. Schindler's List
2. Jaws
3. Raiders
4. E.T.
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. The Color Purple
7. Close Encounters
8. Minority Report
9. Lincoln
10. Munich

ET
Jaws
Raiders
SPR
JP1

My top 5

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Part of what makes it great is we don’t see the shark until the 3rd act

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that's because speilberg realized that the shark looked so fake that he'd have to use it in very small doses and forced him to completely re imagine how he'd shoot the film. so he resorted to the hitchcock technique of the notion of the shark being more impactful than the actual shark.

jaws was his second feature film, i think speilberg is a better director at 80 than he was at 29 and i think he would probably agree with me.

So many good to great movies. Of course everyone will have a different list. However, the Hollywood Reporter list is terrible, lol.

E.T. is a joke at number one for most, including me. It wouldn't make my top 10. SPR at 21, Raiders at 14, lol.

I have to go with Jaws as number one. Some other favorites are SPR, Munich, Schindler's List, Raiders, Catch me if you can and Jurassic Park, no order.

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Disclosure Day is getting trashed in pretty much every review I’ve seen. Whata his last great movie? Lincoln, Munich? His stretch from Duel thru SVP is vastly superior to the years since, which is roughly the same amount of years i don’t think that ls really debatable

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That guy's wrong about Spielberg at 80, but you're only looking at a narrow sliver of the internet (here, likely) if you're only seeing negative reactions to Disclosure Day. And Fabelmans and West Side Story are better than several of the films he made in the 80s and 90s (and 2000s), as Spielberg's entire filmography is peppered with clunkers.

1941? Amistad? Always? The Color Purple? The Lost World? Temple of Doom? Hook (yeah)? I know all of these have their defenders, but I'd call two of them absolute garbage (released the same year). Amistad is a piece of dogshite, still his worst film, released the year before SPR.

He's released 6 movies in the past 10 years, and I'd only include BFG and Ready Player One in the clunkers category. The Post is borderline.


Also, the list in OP is obviously ridiculous. And Close Encounters is #1.

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i think jaws could stand a remake.

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Why? There is zero chance the movie could be improved upon. Sure, you could probably have a more realistic shark but You couldn’t top the chemistry that Scheider , Dryfuss, and Shaw had on screen together.