150 Word Reviews: 'Disclosure Day' (2026)
More at eleven.
If this ended with E.T.’s return, I would have sobbed/cheered. Director Steven Spielberg returns to familiar territory in Disclosure Day. That familiarity breeds a strange complacency. The David Koepp screenplay doesn’t help; it’s an X-Files episode without the fun or paranoia. There’s too much exposition. The magic plot prop is boring. The pro-empathy message is nice.
This is a modest blockbuster by a master who has lost touch. Does he know how computers work? Does he think people watch TV news? Even a Spielbergian car chase falls flat. Josh O’Connor is a math genius hunted by a well-armed Geek Squad. Emily Blunt is practically perfect as a flighty weather forecaster who suddenly speaks fluent alien. Colin Firth is a corporate baddie trying to stop the truth from getting out. What should have been a late-career conversation with classics like Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is more melodrama than thriller.
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