And Vertigo is one of Hitchcock's weaker movies too (I know the critics tend to love it but really it's not that good). Haven't seen either of those Sirk movies.
The first Raiders is still in Spielberg's early period (the last as I define it, ET being his first huge sell out), and the other two are only remembered for being sequels to the first (and so much worse than the first, though Crusade was a definite tick up from Doom it still wasn't very good). ET's flopped in it's re-release so obviously it had no staying power. Schindler's List was good, not great, got a lot of extra oomph because of the subject matter (criticizing a movie about the Holocaust is a dangerous game). Jurassic Park stunk, they completely dumbed down the story and made it all about loud CGI creatures. I look at the IMDB voting and I see mostly forgotten movies. Jurassic Park only has 60,000 votes, Batman Begins has 46,000, ET has 46000 votes, Color Purple has 11,000 votes, Empire of the Sun has 10,000. If his movies are so well remember why is it nobody wants to vote on them, and their ratings aren't very good either.
Lots of Holocaust movies get critiized just fine. Life is Beautiful, The Pianist. You continue to refer to E.T. as a sellout with no evidence. There was no known market of children's films to pander to then. A sell out at the time would have been making a Friday the 13th sequel. SL pops as as often as any other film on Best of the 90s lists. JP was a perfectly good popcorn movie.