Even forty years after its original release, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial still holds up as a special, emotional and heart-warming family film upon first viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2024

Steven Spielberg’s E. T The Extra-Terrestrial envelops you in the way that his Close Encounters of the Third Kind did. It’s a dream of a movie -- a bliss-out.

| Sep 12, 2023

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is a spellbinding foray that reminds us of human compassion and the eternal joy of cinema.

| Mar 1, 2023

Steven Spielberg has given audiences dozens of great films over the years, but no movie has captured childlike wonder quite like E.T.

| Jan 9, 2023

... while far tamer in its final presentation, "E.T." is a scary film and would’ve likely made for a terrifying time, though I do think, all things being equal, that history is better for what we’re given versus what could have been.

| Oct 25, 2022

Spielberg has made a handful of films I would rate higher than E.T., but in terms of emotional investment for the whole family, this one is peerless in his canon, evoking laughter, tears, and everything in between.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2022

The classic moments are still there, large and small.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 17, 2022

Is…is this Spielberg’s best movie?

| Aug 20, 2022

The film has more heart, finesse, performance, and magic in single scenes than some movies have in their entire running time, and does it with an animatronic special effect as a main character.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2022

I laughed, cried and clapped my way through all 95 minutes of it.

| Jul 29, 2022

One of the most important films of the 1980s, one that has continued to have influence in the four decades since.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 27, 2022

It's a magically wonderful movie. Children and adults will love Steven Spielberg's film about a person from outer space, stranded on earth. It's humorous and marvelous all the way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2021

After doing not much more in Raiders [of the Lost Ark] than flexing his muscles, Spielberg has come through again -- he's the Fellini of our electronic games culture.

| Nov 10, 2021

Don't be intimidated by those long lines. E.T. is worth standing in line for. Steven Spielberg's story is the essence of fairy-tale simplicity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 9, 2021

E.T. is such a strange looking puppet, but his sweetness and wonder make him so lovable.

| Mar 29, 2021

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of the greatest films ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

A parable and a fairy tale that speaks to the child in us all, and wishes that we could all be more like Elliot, and less like the grown-ups.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 9, 2020

A family-friendly, heartwarming science-fiction adventure, full of iconic sequences.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Like the spirits in Poltergeist, suspended between one state of consciousness and another, Spielberg hovers somewhere between childhood and adulthood, unable and unwilling to go over the other side. But then, where would the movie industry be if he did?

| Feb 27, 2020

E.T. is a unique movie capable of captivating different audiences. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019