When viewed through the lens of contemporary politics, it's easy to celebrate The Post as an inspiring, nostalgia-soaked newspaper tale for the "Fake News" era. Spielberg, who himself was a huge fan of arcade video games back in the day (he wrote the forward to Martin Amis' long-out-of-print 1982 book Invasion of the Space Invaders), at least dazzles with special effects and Ben Mendelsohn shines as yet another seething baddie, but, like the book, it's hard to care much who wins the game in the end. But it collectively adds up to being more than just implausible it's tiring. The idea, I guess, is that we'll root more for someone if they can turn this trivia sludge into gold in a story set in a dystopian future where literally everything depends on knowing the most obscure and random minutiae from your childhood. The logic likely goes that, while many people can tell you that, say, Williams Electronics released both Joust and Robotron: 2084 in the year 1982, only a truly worthy hero can tell you off the top of his head that the latter arcade classic was designed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, and that, by the way, Jarvis and DeMar also created two other Williams Electronic gems, Defender and Stargate. Like the Ernest Cline novel it's based on, Spielberg's slick Ready Player One places a premium on name-checking and visually referencing pop-culture ephemera (primarily from the 1980s) in service of character development. Jackson would say, hold on to your butts. So, cue up those John Williams strings, grab your inner child, and keep some tissues on standby as we work our way through Spielberg's 32 films. He always does! Over nearly five decades, the filmmaker has defined American studio filmmaking, while racking up billions of box-office dollars and two Best Director Oscars along the way.īut how do his big-budget crowd-pleasers stack up against his award-winners? Has he lost some of his luster as he's gotten older, or has he aged with grace? Does he still make you want to phone home? To find out, we ranked all of Spielberg's theatrically released feature films (sorry, early Spielberg TV movie Duel and his contribution to the anthology Twilight Zone: The Movie).
Even on the rare occasion that his movies struggle at the box office, as his musical adaptation West Side Story has recently, there's still a sense that he'll bounce back. There's never a bad time to be a Steven Spielberg fan.
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