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Over on The Next Reel…Pete Wright and Andy Nelson took Close Encounters apart for the Next Reel's Original Sci-Fi series — the three existing cuts of the film, what's different, why the changes were made, and which to watch — plus an older-and-wiser reckoning with how the parenting of both Roy and Gillian now feels incredibly poor. The private-awe-versus-government-stonewall DNA that Disclosure Day scales up to a global broadcast starts right here. The Next Reel • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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