Spielberg has seemingly done the impossible: balancing sugar-rush nostalgia with an involving story to create a pure, uncynical, cinematic ride that recaptures the magic of his early films.
Spielberg gets his game face on with spectacular results. One extended scene - no spoilers! - is as fun as cinema gets.
This still feels like a relatively minor work in the Spielberg canon - a kids’ movie let down by its own very knowing and adult sensibility.
Some solid whizz-bang material, but feels like cod roe when it should be caviar.
Spielberg delivers eye-popping entertainment, packed with reference after reference.
It’s a film in which Spielberg’s traditional reverence for the wonder and idealism of youth has had to compromise with wised-up survivalist toughness of the new YA mode. But what extraordinary visuals this films conjures up, with images that appear and disappear like quicksilver memes.
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