Hong Chau is just so f*cking good whenever she shows up. I mean, even if she’s in your film for thirty seconds she will *blast* everyone else off the screen. Seriously, put her in everything.  

This is such a great series that they could merely change a few names and wording here and there, take “Star Wars” off of it and it would still be just an amazing sci-fi spy thriller political drama, standing tall on its own. I feel it is the singular best work done in the entire franchise. Addendum: of course, then…

Why on earth are you bothering to write a comment when that time could be spent watching the show!  Get cracking!

I’m not reading anything until I catch up, but I gotta sing the praises of this show. Finally a Star Wars story that is not based on nostalgia, that justifies itself by itself as opposed to in reference to something else, is specifically for grown ups (not that older kids can’t get it but, you know, not marketed to…

I’m not seeing a lot of comments. And it doesn’t seem to be a buzzy show. But it’s been a fantastic season of TV.

It’s not even close. This is the best Star Wars TV show of all time.

I don’t envy the Chinese censor who has to cut this down to a 45-minute movie.

Minority Report and AI are way way too low, Crystal Skull is exactly where it should be. And I can’t really argue with the placement of Jurassic Park, but it’s pretty amazing that any filmmaker could have not just one movie better than that but a solid half dozen.

Minority Report deserves to be top 10. West Side Story deserves to be bottom 10. Otherwise, yeah pretty close!

People forget how fucking nuts the boat sequence is. Plus people getting ground up, turned into alien fertilizer, and sprayed on plants is some of the darkest shit Spielberg has ever done. 

Lincoln needs to be higher if for no other reason that the thesis presented in it about why he pushed for the Thirteenth when he did is genuine historical research; there were several articles on that at the time. It also properly points out just how much of the North wasn’t all that enthusiastic about where Lincoln…

The Board’s problems with Chapek wasn’t his policies.  It was his personality and management style, which caused him to lose the support of Disney employees, executives and stockholders.  His brief tenure has been one PR disaster after another, capped by surprising stockholders about the 4th quarter losses.  If Chapek…

A.I and Empire of the Sun are cinematic masterpieces and should be in the Top Ten. The BFG should not be ranked even one higher than Duel. But good list. Your #2 is my #1 (my top three would be E.T, then a moving list of Jaws and Close Encounters depending on the day). Fabelmans’ not out yet, I have seen all his…

What I like about this list is that if you take the top 7 movies:

I thought War of the Worlds was amazing. It falls apart in the last act but everything before that is astounding.

Not my Spielberg ranking, but the guy has made a ton of great, great movies. Hard to argue too much.

I would put Bridge of Spies higher up.  A very nice low-tech thriller that asks the audience to pay attention.  Mark Rylance was absolutely perfect in it.

I remember critics and fans being unkind to War of the Worlds. I thought it was visceral and thrilling on the same level as Jurassic Park — both pretty much tailor-made to be watched on a large screen with a booming sound system. Yes, Dakota Fanning is terrible in it. And the ending makes no sense. But it’s fun for at…

Man, that top 6. Peerless!

It’s not a horrible list. I have a soft spot for The Terminal - I don’t think it’s great, but as far as Spielbergian sappy endings go, that film seems to demand one, so I always end up kind of liking it.