E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 11, 1982 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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60
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
The story itself holds up fairly well though, twenty years later, does come off as thinner than I recalled. [2002 re-release] Read full review
60
Village VoiceDon McKellar
E.T. is a dog movie. Genre-wise, I mean. It's about a boy meeting a dog, naming it, taming it, learning from it, and growing up. Of course, the genre is superficially disguised as science fiction, as was the fashion at the time. [2002 re-release] Read full review
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