Steven Spielberg: Director’s Collection

Critics embrace directors’ box-sets as a chance to locate pointers to filmmakers’ later work in their early years. Despite its glaring absences, this Universal boxset invites a rethink of any such simple reading of Spielberg’s creative curve. Its eight films are hardly representative; that’s evident. But as a reminder that his curios, misfires and successes alike feature surprises alongside signposts, it offers something besides…