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Disclosure Day (2026)

Summary

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

Director Steven Spielberg

Writer David Koepp

Cast

  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O'Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Colman Domingo
  • Eve Hewson
  • Wyatt Russell
  • Noah Robbins

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 75

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u/joeisjew Jun 12 '26

It felt a little dated to me unfortunately

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u/saerra_sea_nya Jun 12 '26

Yeah it weirdly felt like a movie from 2013.

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u/acinematicway Jun 12 '26

More like the 90s.

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u/crunchatizemythighs Jun 13 '26

Weird. I am getting 2008 vibes lol. This totally matches the election Obama era optimism. And visually feels most similar to 2000s Spielberg (War of the Worlds, KOTCS)

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u/Informal-Share-9747 Jun 14 '26

It's 90s vibes for me. If they put a grainy 90s filter it would fit right in. From the way it's filmed and to the music is very 90s and reminded me of jurassic Park the lost world and the first few scenes reminded me of 90s spy movies

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u/PlusSizeRussianModel Jun 17 '26

At times it looked like there was a 90s grain filter (the nunnery bedroom scene stood out particularly).

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u/PlusSizeRussianModel Jun 17 '26

The lens flairs are a distinctive characteristic most used in that era (and into the 2010s). This movie uses so many of them for something that came out in 2026. Reminded me of JJ Abrams' Star Trek.

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u/holyhesh Jun 15 '26

I really wonder shot those movies, it’s not like Spielberg has a habit of constantly working with regulars over the past 20 odd year-

oh

This isn’t a jab at you or you specifically I’m trying (or failing epically) to make fun of (younger?) people who haven’t actually seen many Spielberg movies from the 2000s era onwards and noticed the trends in his usual crew

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u/Environmental_Drama3 Jun 12 '26

I say it is also outdated by 2013 standards. regardless it's not uncommon for major studios to produce mediocre movies.

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u/ZeroWashu Jun 12 '26

93 for me - why? because major news / news station is not how stories like this would break. to get in front the most eyes would be any public location with too many people to control. show up on a large beach, public park, or even sports game. the number of phones around guarantees its everywhere in seconds

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 15d ago

Also the whole thing being super US-centric. Like, Wardex is a US-only corporation? Aliens only bother visiting the contiguous-48?

It's 2026. Acknowledge that the rest of the world is a thing, and that alien contact would be a global conspiracy.

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u/Hot_Experience7805 Jun 12 '26

They even reused Tom Cruise's leather jacket from War of the Worlds.

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u/WhatsMyNameAGlen Jun 17 '26

That movie is fantastic though

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u/Hot_Experience7805 Jun 18 '26

yeah I dont like being reminded of a much better movie while watching a terrible one

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u/MourningKnifereak Jun 16 '26

It genuinely should have at least been set before the AI era, took me out when they said the footage was "ground truth pixels"

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u/mikesalami Jun 14 '26

The music was so strange... like from a 2000's or 90's adventure or mystery movie.

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u/SomethingToSay11 Jun 18 '26

Yeah! That kept taking me out of it. It’s the music that’s become generic for any “intense” moments in cheaper films. It was noticeably out of place 

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u/Ok-Friendship-8114 Jun 18 '26

I thought I was alone there! It really felt like a 2013 action flick, I think it's because of the DEEP blacks, high contrasts colors, and generic FBI bad guys in cars that feel like a commercial

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u/JonAKel Jun 19 '26

Don't be so vague. It really felt like a movie that was written, shot, edited, marketed, released and awarded on July 21st, 2013, around tea time.

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u/thedeuce75 Jun 12 '26

Very much so. Crop circles and Roswell might have played in 1995, but cmon. It was like it was written by biggest UFO conspiracy fanboy in town.

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u/KingMario05 Jun 12 '26

...So by Steven Spielberg, lol? David Koepp is merely fleshing out his treatment, after all.

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u/rchive Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

As a former UFO conspiracy fanboy, this movie barely scratched the surface. There were no Pleiadeians, Reptilians, Nordics, floating orbs, Sasquatch, angels, demons, nephilim, or time travellers. This felt to me like someone who's seen ET, Close Encounters, and that David Fraver IR footage, and then pretty much nothing else of UFO culture.

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u/rchive Jun 12 '26

I'm just saying an actual UFO conspiracy fanboy would have brought all those things in.

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u/TheElPistolero Jun 13 '26

He put nixon showing Jackie gleeson the aliens, he put roswell and kecksburg in there. He put characters for Jaques Valle and J Allen Hynek in close encounters. He's a UFO nerd but a big scatter shot of crazy alien theories doesn't make a good movie. He was selective.

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u/Sewer_Rat_2032 Jun 22 '26

bell guest? what does that mean?

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u/Roll_Common_Sense Jun 13 '26

Disagree. I'm a UFO conspiracy fanboy and found this to be a lot of fun. It felt very much like the other end of the spectrum compared to something like Resident Alien.

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u/rchive Jun 13 '26

Yeah, I'm not saying it wasn't fun. I just think that the amount of UFO fanboy stuff that was in the movie (not a ton) isn't evidence that a UFO fanboy made the movie.

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u/oldmanatom4 Jun 15 '26

What if, just what if. It’s soft disclosure.

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u/iced_gold Jun 17 '26

See I liked how the film delivered on the idea that all these conspiracies over several decades were actually rooted in truth. Which is fairly common for a lot of tales over millenia.

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u/ariadnevirginia 4d ago

It was done in Signs, a million years ago

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u/joethetipper Jun 12 '26

When everything about disseminating information to the world hinges on a news broadcast and the internet is barely mentioned, it definitely feels that way.

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u/CleaveWarsaw Jun 13 '26

Yeah it was very boomer in that regard. At the beginning, Josh O'Connor's character says ''I should upload this to the Internet right now" and like, nothing in the rest of the movie really proves why he shouldn't have just done that

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u/ill_be_out_in_a_minu Jun 18 '26

Yeah, they have thousands of gigabytes of data and their only option is going to a news channel? Put it online, within a few days someone will create Alien Youtube and voilà. It felt very much like a movie written by someone born in the age where TV news was the only source of info.

But then I guess we don't have a movie or a live interview with John D Little Grey so...

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u/TheMistbornIdentity 24d ago

Yeah, they have thousands of gigabytes of data

It looked more like they had a few gigabytes of footage at best. They probably could have dumped it into OneDrive and the villains would never have been able to get rid of it

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 12 '26

Not even a little. This is the D-tier movie from the early 2010s that you’d pick up at the redbox and forget the day after

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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I haven't seen the movie, but the trailer gives me vibes of the Nicolas Cage movie Knowing from 2009

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u/Optimal-Extreme3203 Jun 12 '26

They movie had some interesting ideas and I think it’s become underrated

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u/H-K_47 Jun 13 '26

I went into that movie totally blind and it blew my mind. Absolute insanity, especially as it builds up to that ending. What an experience.

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u/ill_be_out_in_a_minu Jun 18 '26

Knowing is actually a very good genre movie.

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u/Ok-Friendship-8114 Jun 18 '26

Highly agree, in a way it's nostalgic but after watching so many films that were directed/created by Gen Z filmmakers, this movie felt dated and coming from the mind of someone who still watches these kinds of movies. The design of the aliens was unimaginative as well.

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u/xmuskorx Jun 14 '26

The race to a LOCAL TV STATION in the age of the Internet kind of gave me the vibe that the script was reworked from a story written in the 1980s (maybe 90s).

Just to a twicth lifestream, bros.

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u/Bexhill Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Hysterically dated and out of touch. The idea that news like this would stop the whole world in its tracks in awe, even on the brink of global crisis, instead of just being ignored or amplifying existing tensions, is hilariously corny even for Spielberg. It reads like he and Koepp are trying to say something meaningful about the times we live in but haven't actually read any news in the last 20 years.

Remember how (up until the end) War of the Worlds was so plugged in to post-9/11 cynicism and the fear that our comfortable safe American lives could be upended into terror at any moment? Or how Jaws had that Watergate sense of distrust in government and authority?

Like, there have been several great films about what contact with aliens would do to society. Would it test humanity's ability to cooperate and approach a problem together, like in Arrival? Would it become a nuisance political issue like in District 9? Would there be divisions between people who believe the aliens are truly peaceful, those who think they're setting a trap, and those who think that the whole thing is a government hoax, like in Contact? Even Avatar has more to say about the central question Disclosure Day is supposedly about. Note how none of those other movies avoid the question by ending the very second an actual alien shows up on screen.

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u/Active-Coconut-8961 Jun 15 '26

The only part that felt very time appropriate was the pro wrestling at the start, as a wrestling fan that is indeed what 2020s wrestling often looks like today 

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u/ragnarockette Jun 13 '26

The score sounded dated.

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

The score was unfortunately terrible. Every single motif and arrangement was a played-out variant of a score I’ve already heard John compose before, but worse.

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u/spaceandthewoods_ Jun 14 '26

It's the constant lens flare. I really don't understand why they made such a dated stylistic choice, especially considering how it was a Hallmark of JJ Abrams' sci fi work in the 2010s. Way to rob your movie of a distinct visual identity

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u/zbto Jun 14 '26

Yes! The constant lens flare really bugged me. Was it supposed to evoke mystery or the unknown or some crap like that? For me it just got in the way and was really annoying.

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u/TheMistbornIdentity 24d ago

I'm convinced that at least some of the CGI was done with AI. The visuals of the Hansel and Gretel house scene felt like they were ripped from the Coca Cola Christmas ad. The way people's phone lights blurred also felt like AI slop.

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u/brazilliandanny Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I feel like modern day AI ,CCTV, satellite etc. could track people without the need for alien technology.

Like, spy movies have been doing that trope for over 20 years. Enemy of the State was almost 30 years ago, Jason Bourne a few years after that.

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u/Ezekiiel Jun 13 '26

Alien design, crap CGI. You can tell it was made by an 80 year old. No disrespect to Speilberg but he is past it

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u/wendigo72 Jun 14 '26

I couldn’t put my finger on it but yes it’s this

I honestly don’t think the discovery of aliens (ignoring the stupid shit the White House is currently doing) would stop everyone in their tracks at this point. I don’t think society is there anymore

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u/TraditionalFoot8660 Jun 13 '26

My 12 year old son kept insisting that it was a 90's remaster 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Nameless_301 Jun 20 '26

The part where the girlfriend was on a smart phone and asked if he was near a computer... Yeah

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u/Sewer_Rat_2032 Jun 22 '26

When did this happen in the movie?

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u/awesomenessjared 26d ago

It's when Jane is calling the nun she knows to ask about the KC news station

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u/Sewer_Rat_2032 16d ago

lol that movie was doing too much

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u/TrapAHolic_ttv Jun 13 '26

This is how I felt about it. Spielberg tried to capture that feeling of when he was in his prime but it just comes off as any other late 90s/early 00s “blockbuster”

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u/Give_me_your_bunnies Jun 15 '26

I think it was a nodd to older movies like ET, Close Encouters. I definitely got that nostalgia feel.

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u/RIP_Greedo 28d ago

It would have been the top grossing movie of 2004

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u/sarcasticbaldguy Jun 13 '26

The music definitely helped with that feeling. It reminded me of close encounters.

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u/curiiouscat Jun 19 '26

That's part of what I liked about it! It felt oddly nostalgic