Disclosure Day

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writer: David Koepp
• Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell

Grade: B+

After a career spanning more than 50 years and making some of the most celebrated sci-fi films of all time, it would be fair for movie lovers to feel apprehensive when a new Steven Spielberg UFO film is announced. Could Disclosure Day have something new to say that wasn’t already explored in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or E.T., or War of the Worlds? His fifth collaboration with screenwriter David Koepp plays the hits explored in those, and other well-regarded sci-fi films – Contact and The Day the Earth Stood Still first come to mind – but still feels like a worthwhile, engaging, and best of all, original experience. Spielberg has been our most curious filmmaker, exploring what would happen when everyday adults and children encounter the extraordinary, and it’s this curiosity which carries Disclosure Day from beginning to end.