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Puppy eyes, sad hair and a big boom box: John Cusack films – ranked!

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By Anne Billson
| AOL UK Verified
Thu, 25 June 2026 at 12:00 pm UTC Deadpan cool … Cusack as Martin Q Blank in Grosse Pointe Blank.Photograph: Buena Vista/Allstar It's the Great Depression à la Disney when a tomboy, Natty, rides the rails in search of her lumberjack father.
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The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

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By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw Verified, Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey Verified, Simran Hans Verified, Stuart Heritage Verified, Ann Lee, Joseph McBride Verified, Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford Verified, Andrew Pulver Verified, Scott Tobias Verified, Edgar Wright
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Steven Spielberg is often described as the inventor of the “event movie” – or as the creator of our new age of IP supremacy, in which the genre property is more important than any above-the-title film star. But that isn’t quite it. He came of age in the American new wave era but in spirit belonged neither to that nor fully to Hollywood’s golden age studio system that preceded it. In fact, he synthesised both into a directing style that was audacious and fluent.
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The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

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By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw Verified, Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey Verified, Simran Hans Verified, Stuart Heritage Verified, Ann Lee, Joseph McBride Verified, Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford Verified, Andrew Pulver Verified, Scott Tobias Verified, Edgar Wright
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Spielberg’s early achievement was to bring about an evolutionary sea change, reinvigorating pulp-popular themes and ideas and giving them a new maturity and mainstream box office credibility. The idea of a giant shark crazed with a vindictive taste for human flesh or dinosaurs busting out of an amusement park is something that Roger Corman or Ed Wood Jr might have made in two weeks with risible rubber creatures. In Jaws and Jurassic Park, Spielberg’s production values were state of the art.
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