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Review of by Charles Champlin for Los Angeles Times — 17 Dec 2013

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It is a warm celebration, positive and pleasurable. The humor is folksy and slapstick rather than cerebral, as if to confirm that our encounter is with a populist vehicle.

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This review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was written by and published by Los Angeles Times on 17 Dec 2013.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind has generally received very positive reviews.

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