Molly Haskell

“Poltergeist is the less sentimental and, for me, more powerful film [than E.T.]…. But more majestic than anything in either film is the moment when Jobeth Williams's marvelously dippy and endearing child-mother turns into a woman who will move mountains to retrieve her lost child.”

Molly Haskell
Playgirl, September 1982

get also Haskell's year-end comment