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Movie Overview
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss
Teri Garr
Melinda Dillon
Director
Steven Spielberg
MPAA Rating
PG - For some intense sci-fi action, mild language and thematic elements
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4/4
"The film...lacks blockbuster detachment."
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
A-
"It plays out as a film buff's idea of what a UFO sighting would be like if it could be a cross between a Disney theme park and a 1970s light show at a disco."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
9/10
"[A] great movie, and one of the rare uplifting experiences in modern cinema."
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Dragan Antulov
"Masterwork thriller about UFOs."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
4/4
"
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
is unquestionably a great movie."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/4
"Not even Spielberg makes them as they used to."
Sci-Fi Movie Page
James O'Ehley
5/5
"Definitive cut of director Steven Spielberg's masterpiece isn't just great science fiction: It's great art."
Netflix
James Rocchi
10/10
"...a masterful motion picture all around...where the interactions of its characters are equally important as the wizardry of the special effects."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
"Real smart and touching, in an unusual way."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
4/5
"What I could see of the special effects were wonderful, and they hold up over time, unlike many sci-fi movies. The landing scene at the end still fills you with wonder and amazement."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
5/5
"A thrilling adventure story and a brilliant example of the art and craft of movie making."
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
5/5
"May be the greatest film ever made about the meeting of the rational and the mystical."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
"Viewing
Close Encounters
we are reduced to a childlike perception, overwhelmed by the luster and might of the vision before us."
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
5/5
"perhaps, my favourite alien movie ever"
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Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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