10 Steven Spielberg Movies You Should Rewatch Immediately

Shot for US TV by Spielberg aged 25, this monster truck movie — ie, a monster movie with a lorry as the unceasing beast — was fleshed out for its cinema release.

His aliens-are-coming epic, sci-fi with real heart, is aging like fine wine. If you're going to be a nerd about it, watch the Collector's Edition version (fat trimmed; better ending).

The director's first "serious" movie dealt with incest, rape and the female African-American experience, and got Oprah Winfrey a deserved Oscar acting nomination.

A screwball folly about an anxious Los Angeles post-Pearl Harbor is not quite the sum of its parts, but those parts include many ambitious set pieces and a fizzing John Belushi.

Welsh rookie Christian Bale (what happened to him?) is terrific as a boy adrift in Japanese-occupied WWII Shanghai. Spielberg's most underrated film.

Yes, humanoids have feelings, too, but with the flashes of genius you'd expect from a Spielberg-Kubrick mash-up, the former taking over after the latter's years of toil.

It says a lot for Spielberg's outstanding CV that a big-budget, commercially successful, sci-fi epic starring Tom Cruise can legitimately appear on a list like this.

World-leading cheque fraudster Leonardo Di Caprio drags Tom Hanks's dogged FBI agent on an international paper chase. Enormous fun from start to finish.

It says a lot for Spielberg's outstanding CV that two big-budget, commercially successful, sci-fi epics starring Tom Cruise can legitimately appear on a list like this.

Mossad assassination squad avenges the 1972 Olympics massacre. Masterful drama labelled vehemently anti-Israeli and defiantly pro-Israeli, as it ever was on this topic.