Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert’s Best and Worst Alien Movies

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to ...

An Alien Movie for a Post-Truth Moment

War of the Worlds was an obvious and devastating response to the carnage of 9/11, updating the classic novel to a modern-day ...
Inverse

15 Years Ago, A Spielberg-Style Alien Movie Did Everything Right Except the Alien Parts

Steven Spielberg knows aliens. Though he hasn't made as many UFO-centric movies as you might assume (he's made more movies about WWII than he has about extraterrestrials), the director behind ...