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Review of by Martin Gardner for The New York Review of Books — 03 Apr 2018

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Alas, beneath the visual hanky-panky stretches a thin, hackneyed plot that was done to death in the SF magazines and third-rate films of the Fifties.

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This review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was written by and published by The New York Review of Books on 03 Apr 2018.

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

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