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Writer and film critic. Read me in The Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman, GQ, Dazed & Confused etc.
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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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From Michael to Back to Black, many authorised music biopics are becoming bland propaganda. Fans deserve more

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