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One of the great moviegoing experiences.
This is dopey Hollywood mysticism all right, but thanks to considerable craft and showmanship, it packs an undeniable punch.
A daring film concept which in its special and technical effects has been superbly realized.
The best -- the most elaborate -- 1950's science fiction movie ever made, a work that borrows its narrative shape and its concerns from those earlier films, but enhances them with what looks like the latest developments in movie and space technology.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is unquestionably a great movie.
A film of visual awe, but it's not much of a human story. Close Encounters is a terrific bit of imagineering, but ultimately is a minor work in the Spielberg filmography.
Suspenseful, thoughtful alien-encounter classic.
perhaps, my favourite alien movie ever
the three disc set is worth getting your hands on to get the full experience
Spielberg's screenwriting sounds a bit tinny in parts today, but the film is just as gripping and mesmerizing, thanks to his command as a director and the benevolence of his vision.
The new Blu-ray presentations--crafted with input from Spielberg himself--make the film look better than it ever has.
Though made the same year, Spielberg's awe-inspiring sci-fi fable has held much better than Star Wars due to his sublime crafstmanship, which benefits from sharp imagery and F/X, and engaging story and charcaters, well-acted by Richard Dreyfuss and others
It plays out as a film buff's idea of what a UFO sighting would be like if it could be a cross between a Disney theme park and a 1970s light show at a disco.
Steven Spielberg's awesome (in the literal sense), lyrical film about the first contact between humans and extraterrestrials is the kind of movie that gives you goosebumps.
The first film in years to give its audiences a tingle of shocked emotion that is not entirely based either on fear or on suspense.
Spielberg answers the "Are we alone?" question in fine form.
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