Still in awe of the movies at age 65

Steven Spielberg gives us a crowd pleaser in The Adventures of Tintin and a tear-jerker with War Horse. Is it too much for one man? David Ansen reports

FOR those of us who grew up on the movies of Steven Spielberg, it’s hard not to think of him as a boy wonder. He is the director laureate of the Peter Pan generation, and we’ve all ‘never grown up’ alongside him. He was in his 20s when he made Jaws, which redefined the summer movie, and within seven years he had made Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and ET.

Judged in economic terms, Spielberg has no peers: the films he’s directed — never mind the 130 movies and TV projects that bear his name as a producer — have generated €3bn in box-office revenue in the US.