The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

From franchise hits to historical epics, joyous musicals to autobiographical family sagas: Steven Spielberg has done it all. As his latest sci-fi film Disclosure Day is released, film-makers, authors and Guardian critics reveal which of his movies means the most to them Steven Spielberg is often described as the inventor of the “event movie” – or as the creator of our new age of IP supremacy, in which the genre property is more important than any above-the-title film star. But that isn’t quit...

By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey, Simran Hans, Stuart Heritage, Ann Lee, Joseph McBride, Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford, Andrew Pulver, Scott Tobias and Edgar Wright