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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
September 18, 2025
19:30
An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
"Inevitably, two questions will be asked of the new movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Is it as good as Star Wars, and did 29-year-old director Steven Spielberg equal his feat with Jaws with this film on UFOs? The answer to both is yes."
Jerry Buck, Associated Press
Jerry Buck, Associated Press
"This film has retained some of the wonder and bafflement we feel when we first go into a planetarium: we ooh and aah at the vastness, and at the beauty of the mystery."
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker