Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz

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352 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

That duo would have watched a whole spinoff about that kooky duo.

They're trying to figure out what's going on.

And in the middle of all of this,

Richard Dreyfuss, who here is playing a guy called Roy.

Roy Neary.

Roy Neary, who works as a telephone lineman and lives with his wife and three kids, has an encounter, a close encounter, with a UFO and is forever changed by it.

And one thing I love about the movie is that Spielberg pays really close attention to the human cost of wanting to know more.

There's a depiction of this totally chaotic family, which I really loved.

I love the honesty about how much chaos there can be in a family with kids.

I love that take on me.

You know?

Yeah, that's so smart.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, dad's having his midlife crisis, so we all have to, so the family breaks up.

Exactly.

And then, of course, there's the aliens of it.

These are Spielbergian aliens.

And by that, I mean,

Kind.

Cute.

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