Spielberg Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best
by
Joal Ryan, for Metacritic
– June 24, 2016
The trial has not yet convened for The BFG. As for every other feature film that Steven Spielberg has directed? Oh, we’ve got the verdicts on those. All of them.
Here they are, Spielberg’s life’s work, from the lesser to the greater, as judged by the top critics and ranked by their Metascores. In instances where movies have the same Metascore, the films have been listed alphabetically.
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photo by Warner Bros.
This lovely, brutal 1985 movie, about survival and sisterhood in the 1930s Deep South, was the first time Spielberg asserted himself as something other than a master of the blockbuster.
“Some parts of it are rapturous and stirring, others hugely improbable, and the film moves unpredictably from one mode to another.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times
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