Steven Spielberg’s new flying saucer movie promises truth, delivers popcorn
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Peter Howell
Movie Critic
Steven Spielberg’s latest flying saucer movie, “Disclosure Day,” sells revelation but delivers popcorn.
It’s hyped as a quasi-docudrama about UFOs, but what lands onscreen is a slick, overstuffed thriller that treats disclosure more as a marketing hook than a master plan.
Emily Blunt’s Kansas City weather reporter, Margaret Fairchield, who suddenly starts speaking in alien clicks on live TV, anchors the chaos with a funny, emotionally precise performance that deserves the awards chatter it’s already generating.
She’s chased by and through cars, trains, fire trucks and eye-rolling plot turns alongside Josh O’Connor’s truth-obsessed whistleblower, Daniel Kellner. A dimly recalled past is about to become part of their frantic present.
Callbacks to “Close Encounters” and “E.T.” flirt with cosmic awe, but the film ultimately chooses to dazzle rather than enlighten.
“Disclosure Day” promises to change how we see the universe; it mostly just reminds us Spielberg is more P.T. Barnum than he is Carl Sagan. 🌛
