Every Spielberg movie ranked from Duel to Ready Player One via Jaws, Indy, Schindler and more

We love you Steven but sorry, this was total rubbish. Shia LaBeouf. Monkeys. Aliens. Really? You totally nuked the fridge on this one.

It's got Vince Vaughn in it, but not Sam Neill. And it's so much worse than the magnificent original. Not as bad as the third one, though.

Like Ghost, but without the fun, this maudlin romance (about a ghost who has to let his ex move on) is schmaltz on toast.

Marketed as a comedy (even though Spielberg thought he'd made a drama), 1941's period tale of LA's response to the Pearl Harbor attacks is tonally all over the place. It has gained cult status since its critically panned initial release, but that doesn't make it big, or clever. 

There's swashbuckling fun to be had in the 'Berg's Peter Pan romp and it boasts a great cast (Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) but this doesn't rank with classic Spielbergs.

Tom Cruise's highest-grossing movie is a big, entertaining and noisy thriller. Dakota Fanning is very annoying in this film, though.

We thought we were going to cry our eyes out at this Roald Dahl adap but actually, after a promising start, an awful lot of this film is people having a chat in a kitchen. 

It's got lovely Tom Hiddleston and a horse, and the play is great but doesn't successfully translate to film unfortunately, veering towards sentimentality at times. As *shh*, it's not actually a very good story.

It's worthy and important, a historical epic, and Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for his role as the American President leading during the civil war. Bit boring though.

Upset that it's this low down? Of course we love Indy as a character and Temple is packed with magic and adventure and bugs and mine carts. But the trouble is Willie – who is just the worst – and she's in it far too much to ignore. Plus the "problematic" racial stereotyping stuff, of course.

Spielberg true tale of the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by The Washington Post and the tough decisions that had to be made by it's groundbreaking female publisher was worthy Oscar fodder. Meryl Streep's great, Tom Hanks is great but the movie is a tad on the boring side if we're honest - at the start at least.

We've got a bit of a soft spot for this rather sweet story about an immigrant who has to live in JFK airport because he's denied entry into the US. Trouble is, it might play as a bit fluffy and flippant right now given the current political situation...

Leo as the cheeky, charismatic con-kid who pretended to be a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. Tom Hanks as the frustrated FBI agent one step behind on his tail. It may not be classic Spielberg, but it's a great story that happened to be more or less true.

Glossy pic about an obnoxious British teenager separated from his parents in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during WWII. Includes an amazing breakout performance from 13-year-old Christian Bale.

Definitely the best of the recent crop of Spielbergs, it's a tense cold-war drama reuniting the 'Berg with Tom Hanks and earning an Oscar for co-star Mark Rylance.

Emotional adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the problems faced by African-American women in the early 20th century, it put Whoopi Goldberg on the map, marked Oprah Winfrey's big screen debut and was nominated for 11 Oscars. None of which it won.

If you pretend the film ends before the "two thousand years later" bit, this is a brilliant and moving sci-fi fairytale, packed with great performances, that's constantly underrated. It was also a kind-of collaboration with the late Stanley Kubrick. Go watch it again!

The most underrated of his true-life historical dramas, Munich is the classy and politically balanced story of a secret Israeli squad on a mission for revenge after the Munich massacre. Eric Bana is great in it, too.

A massively welcome and longer awaited return to fun family form. Spielberg's adap of Ernest Clines pop-culture heavy novel is a joyful homage to everything '80s and no one could have done a better job of it than Uncle Steven.

Smart, thrilling grown-up sci-fi predicts a whole bunch of future technology. Highly enjoyable, but perhaps not as emotional as some of the best 'Bergs.