Super 8 is a perfect 10

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2015)

JJ Abrams' 'Super 8' is an unabashed homage to the 70s, Spielberg and the kind of cinema he helped to create. But it's not merely a fan film or a copycat. It stands very much on its own two feet. It's clear that Abrams--a child of the 70s--has an affinity for the era, and that love saturates every frame.
I was born in 1974, grew up in Ohio not far from the film's fictional Lillian, and I too was into model kits, sci-fi and all the rest, so naturally 'Super 8' was in my wheelhouse. But watching it in the years since its release, with my own Mother having passed in the interim, it has taken on a whole new meaning.
Great performances and humor and heart to spare. This really is the type of film Hollywood doesn't or can't make anymore.