All Steven Spielberg’s films – ranked!

33. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Don’t blame Harrison Ford, who was a spry 65 when he shot this fourth Indy adventure. It’s the rest of the film that’s a mess: we get Mayans, kung-fu assassins, extraterrestrials, giant ants and that fridge, which protects the hero from an atomic blast in the most widely mocked scene of Spielberg’s career.

32. Hook (1991)

This Peter Pan sequel began life as a musical before Spielberg “chickened out after the first week of shooting” and removed all the songs. Show tunes might have distracted from Robin Williams at his most saccharine or Julia Roberts as a swattable Tinkerbell.

31. War Horse (2011)

Or: All Equine on the Western Front. A boy and his horse are separated by war in this adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo novel and National Theatre hit. Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch do proper Period Drama Acting against a backdrop of CGI skies and synthetic emotion.

30. Always (1989)

Based on one of Spielberg’s two favourite films (A Guy Named Joe) and featuring a final role for Audrey Hepburn (the star of the other, Two for the Road), this labour of love is laborious all right. Richard Dreyfuss is the dead pilot guiding his earthbound sweetheart