32 Steven Spielberg Movies Ranked Worst to Best

This is a screwball comedy about Californians in a panic over what they fear is an imminent invasion by Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie featured “Saturday Night Live” stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough return in this sequel to the runaway hit “Jurassic Park” (see No. 7). Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel said the film “lacked a staple of Steven Spielberg adventure films: exciting characters.”

Spielberg reimagined the beloved Peter Pan franchise with Peter (Robin Williams) as a middle-aged lawyer trying to find his young children who were abducted by Capt. Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Malcolm Johnson of the Hartford Courant said, “Unhappily, however, the transformation of a Type A American lawyer into a boy wonder unfolds with an uncertainty and clumsiness atypical of Spielberg.”

This homage to the groundbreaking television series is presented in anthology style. Critics said the film was uneven. Spielberg was one of four directors of the movie, along with John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Miller.

Critics liked this remake of the 1953 film based on the H.G. Wells’ novel more than audiences. Tom Cruise plays a dockwater trying to protect his children amid the chaos and destruction during an alien invasion.