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• Lights in the Dusk's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Lights in the Dusk

  The usual themes, childhood isolation and the collapse of the nuclear family, explored through the relationship between human and extraterrestrial. Spielberg uses this idea to craft a moving, intimate, often claustrophobic film (about the clash between 'belief' and cynicism) that is also genuinely surreal; the apocalyptic imagery contrasting against the suburban American setting to create a sense of real danger.

  March 07, 2012 14:57

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• filmcapsule's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  filmcapsule

  Like most of Spielberg’s work, ET restores a sense of childhood wonder. This mode becomes both text and subtext, and informs the film’s visual style and sentimental machinations. ET doesn't undercut this systematic naivety with the cynicism of adulthood, but respects the emotional experience of childhood, its joys, fears, and its own unique wisdom. http://filmcapsule.com/2014/06/30/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial-1982/

  June 30, 2014 14:40

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• goeienag's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  goeienag

  E.T. was one of the most terrifying creatures I'd ever seen.

  October 05, 2011 07:22

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• Kelvane's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Kelvane

  So creepy when he turns white.

  April 16, 2010 03:54

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• Adam Cook's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Adam Cook

  So nice to revisit this for the first time since early childhood. Some of Spielberg's finest work. One can see how this had such an influence on Apichatpong.

  June 11, 2011 05:34

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• 4LOM's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  4LOM

  Als ich vor 30 Jahren als 6-Jähriger zum ersten Mal im Kino saß und "E.T." gesehen habe, war das ganz bestimmt einer der Gründe für meine heutige Filmleidenschaft.

  November 18, 2012 14:11

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• Matthew Martens's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Matthew Martens

  "Back to the river! Back to the forest!" Sublime hokum from the golden age of science fiction, otherwise known as my own childhood (maybe yours, too), E.T. overwhelms the wonder receptors in the brain, turning susceptible viewers into weeping, grinning, dopey miracles of the human spirit. Want a Coke? Don't ruin it.

  August 19, 2013 12:20

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• Seth Farmer's rating of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Seth Farmer

  Shotguns > walkie talkies.

  August 01, 2011 00:49

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