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Spielberg celebrates his 78th birthday!

A box office success out of the gate (at 16, he shot a movie for $500 and sold $501 in tickets), Steven Spielberg has toiled in what must be the world’s funnest imaginary sandbox, on his way to becoming the most successful movie director ever. From the depths of his talent, we’ve gotten dashing adventurer archaeologists (Indiana Jones), far-away visitors(E.T.), hungry hungry dinos (Jurassic Park and sequel), and maturing insight into some dark moments of recent history (Schindler’s List, The Post). For his latest, Spielberg looks to his own past, creating a semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young man in The Fabelmans.

Sure, his movies transcend generations — but how do they stack against each on the Tomatometer, piled up like so much mashed potatoes? We’re ranking all of the Steven Spielberg movies from lowest to highest, and finding out.

#1

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Adjusted Score: 114528%

Synopsis: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott…
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#2

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Adjusted Score: 111820%

Synopsis: Businessman Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow in 1939, ready to make his fortune from World War II, which…
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#3

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Adjusted Score: 114432%

Synopsis: When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island,…
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#4

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Adjusted Score: 102908%

Synopsis: Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline –…
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#5

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Adjusted Score: 103434%

Synopsis: Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have…
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#6

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Adjusted Score: 108966%

Synopsis: Dr. Indiana Jones, a renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the…
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#7

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Adjusted Score: 114338%

Synopsis: Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see “The Greatest Show on Earth.”…
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#8

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Adjusted Score: 111203%

Synopsis: Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City….
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#9

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Adjusted Score: 106511%

Synopsis: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane….
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#10

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Adjusted Score: 105365%

Synopsis: In Steven Spielberg’s massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff…
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#11

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Adjusted Score: 102699%

Synopsis: Science fiction adventure about a group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) witnesses an…
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#12

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Adjusted Score: 103953%

Synopsis: With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings…
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#13

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Adjusted Score: 98179%

Synopsis: Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, “Minority Report” is an action-detective thriller set in…
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#14

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Adjusted Score: 94050%

Synopsis: David Mann (Dennis Weaver), a mild mannered electronics salesman, is driving cross-country on a two-lane highway when he encounters an…
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#15

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Adjusted Score: 110692%

Synopsis: Katharine Graham is the first female publisher of a major American newspaper — The Washington Post. With help from editor…
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#16

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Adjusted Score: 92478%

Synopsis: Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) lose their baby to the state of Texas and…
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#17

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Adjusted Score: 96726%

Synopsis: An art collector appeals to Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. He learns that another archaeologist…
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#18

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Adjusted Score: 85864%

Synopsis: After the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and their coach at the 1972 Olympics, the Israeli government secretly assigns Avner…
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#19

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Adjusted Score: 82317%

Synopsis: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) leads…
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#20

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Adjusted Score: 90047%

Synopsis: The second of the Lucas/Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of…
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#21

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Adjusted Score: 89780%

Synopsis: It’s the height of the Cold War, and famous archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), returning from his latest adventure, finds…
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#22

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Adjusted Score: 82702%

Synopsis: Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners…
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#23

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Adjusted Score: 83383%

Synopsis: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a…
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#24

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Adjusted Score: 86197%

Synopsis: Dockworker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) struggles to build a positive relationship with his two children, Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and Robbie…
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#25

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Adjusted Score: 84411%

Synopsis: While shopping at an outdoor market, young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell), accompanied by his faithful dog, Snowy, buys a model…
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#26

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Adjusted Score: 83768%

Synopsis: Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse, Joey, live on a farm in the British countryside. At the outbreak of…
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#27

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Adjusted Score: 88760%

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Sophie is in for the adventure of a lifetime when she meets the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance). Naturally…
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#28

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Adjusted Score: 95953%

Synopsis: In 2045, the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse, but people find salvation in the OASIS, an…
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#29

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Adjusted Score: 85376%

Synopsis: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South…
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#30

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Adjusted Score: 71725%

Synopsis: Aerial firefighter Pete (Richard Dreyfuss) risks himself and his vintage World War II airplane in a constant and death-defying quest…
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#31

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Adjusted Score: 67888%

Synopsis: When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), an Eastern European tourist, arrives at JFK in New York, war breaks out in his…
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#32

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Adjusted Score: 62790%

Synopsis: This tribute to the beloved supernatural TV show has four episodes. In the first, racist Bill Connor (Vic Morrow) is…
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#33

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Adjusted Score: 58550%

Synopsis: Four years after “Jurassic Park”, mathematician Ian Malcolm ventures onto a second island to save his girlfriend from becoming dinosaur…
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#34

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Adjusted Score: 41137%

Synopsis: After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, residents of California descend into a wild panic, afraid that they might be the…
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#35

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Adjusted Score: 34456%

Synopsis: When his young children are abducted by his old nemesis, Capt. Hook (Dustin Hoffman), middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams)…
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