Average Rating: 9/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 89 | Rotten: 2
Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 1
Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
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Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups. Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother (Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). Elliott often
Jun 11, 1982 Wide
Oct 22, 2002
Universal Pictures
All Critics (91) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (2) | DVD (22)
An appealing film this new one is, with some charm, some glee in the childrens' triumphs, some share in their friendship with E.T.
More than the work of any other filmmaker, Spielberg's output seems uniquely designed to induce in me this queasy false-memory syndrome.
On inherent merit, the movie would not warrant such a highly publicized re-release, but this is one of those films that transcends what's on the screen.
A contemporary classic.
Though marred by Spielberg's usual carelessness with narrative points, the film alternates sweetness and sarcasm with enough rhetorical sophistication to be fairly irresistible.
[It] may become a children's classic of the space age.
One of Spielberg's two or three masterpieces, an extremely satisfying sci-fi fable.
Steven Spielberg at his most pure.
Spielberg's family classic is still one of the best.
Spielberg triumphantly succeeds in bringing the magical to the everyday.
It helped alter the course of sci-fi movies by suggesting that intergalactic aliens might not be monsters but friendly, even loving, creatures. This doesn't make it a masterpiece, but it's fun.
What I see is simply a timeless story about friendship, loss and maturity -- and, perhaps, an idealized America of the kind Hollywood and politicians strive to convince us could really exist.
...a bona fide classic that has something to offer moviegoers of all ages.
Although conclusively demonstrating Spielberg's preeminence as the popular artist of his time, E.T. finally seems a less impressive film than Close Encounters.
E.T. is a film I will continue to watch over and over for the rest of my life. It is one I will never grow sick of, no matter how many times I watch it.
It's a simple beautiful story about loneliness, friendship, and the bittersweet pangs of childhood.
What do Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein, and E.T. have in common? The eyes, according to Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg's ultimate masterpiece. The film manages to convey the importance of friendship, family, and love in a way that is touching without getting overly-sentimental. Everybody from the child actors to the adults give great performances. The special effects work for the character E.T. are so fantastic that
June 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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