The Ecstatic Nightmare: Reevaluating the Legacy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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June 14, 2026
Nearly five decades after its 1977 debut, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind remains a towering monolith in the landscape of science fiction cinema. It is a film that defies the typical categorization of the genre—existing…