'Close Encounters' review: Spielberg's reach for the heavens turns 40
by By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Sep 01, 2017
3 minutes
A handful of great films have so little wrong with them, they're like aliens to our world - pristine, triumphs of inevitability, magically right in terms of intent and technique and impact.
Most films that touch greatness, however, are different. They're messy. You can find a hundred things not quite great about them, and even entire scenes that don't come off, yet the filmmaker's ideas and visual intuition become one, and the film's limitations slide right off the greatness of it. However old or young you are when you first encounter those ideas
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