Super 8

"It was like seeing a lost early Spielberg classic (...) 'Super 8' is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)" 

"Writer-director J.J. Abrams overloads this sci-fi adventure with so many homages to his co-producer Steven Spielberg that it plays like the elder director's greatest hits, minus his characteristic scares and sense of wonder" 

"A retro monster mash with a child's heart, a prodigy's unstoppable imagination (...) This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" 

Put "The Goonies," "E.T.," "Close Encounters" and "War of the Worlds" in that blender from "Gremlins" -- and transport the mixture back to 1979 in the "Back to the Future" DeLorean -- and you get J.J. Abrams' "Super 8 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" 

"This melding of two cinematic sensibilities, though effective at moments, is finally not as exciting or involving as it we'd like it to be (...) The problem with "Super 8" is not how much there is to complain about but how little there is to be excited about" 

"Loving, playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year -- of many years"