11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Spielberg's Peak (Glaring Admissions)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind or: Full Disclosure, this rips harder than just about anything else Spielberg “I’m Mr. In Contention for being the Greatest Filmmaker of All Time” Spielberg has ever cooked up. Take that Jurassic Park! 

On this episode of Glaring Admissions, Nick and Raekwon sit down to review and provide an analysis/retrospective on 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the iconic science fiction film that was helmed by the iconic director of Jaws, ET: The Extra Terrestrial, and Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg! In the process, they ponder whether anyone else could’ve made a movie that’s quite as good (in spite of its few flaws) as Close Encounters. Including Steven Spielberg himself!

Their conversation also discusses the way that Spielberg seems to love making movies about aliens, how his humanist touch to storytelling elevates the material, and how he may be trying to evoke his iconic alien movie once again with 2026’s Disclosure Day, another film about aliens coming to Earth and the attempt of several human characters to make sense of it.