# The best Steven Spielberg movies

From Jaws to Schindler's List: Spielberg's films ranked by critics (The Hollywood Reporter, Metacritic, Rolling Stone).

- 1117 votes · 12 items
- Aug 12, 2023 · Malik Morgan
- https://even.best/en/l/2022/the-best-steven-spielberg-movies

## Top 12

1. **Schindler's List (1993)** (116 · ▲129 ▼13) — An industrialist saves his Jewish workers; Metascore 90.
2. **Jaws (1975)** (90 · ▲103 ▼13) — The first summer blockbuster.
3. **Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)** (89 · ▲100 ▼11) — Indiana Jones' first adventure.
4. **Saving Private Ryan (1998)** (87 · ▲94 ▼7) — The Omaha Beach landing and a search behind enemy lines.
5. **E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)** (72 · ▲84 ▼12) — A boy, an alien and a bicycle across the moon.
6. **Jurassic Park (1993)** (69 · ▲80 ▼11) — Cloned dinosaurs and groundbreaking effects.
7. **Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)** (66 · ▲77 ▼11) — Five musical notes and a mountain in Wyoming.
8. **Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)** (56 · ▲68 ▼12) — Indy, his father and the Holy Grail.
9. **Minority Report (2002)** (48 · ▲63 ▼15) — Tom Cruise and a crime that hasn't happened yet.
10. **Catch Me If You Can (2002)** (41 · ▲58 ▼17) — Leonardo DiCaprio's con man and Tom Hanks' FBI agent.
11. **The Fabelmans (2022)** (28 · ▲47 ▼19) — Spielberg's own childhood and love of film.
12. **Munich (2005)** (21 · ▲47 ▼26) — The aftermath of the 1972 Olympics attack.

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