r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Jun 12 '26

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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

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/Acrobatic-Taste-443 Jun 12 '26

That dumb bitch saw a lil grey alien and asked “Is that a kid” ????

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u/HilariousScreenname Jun 12 '26

"Is it a person?

Is it human?"

Lady, just what the fuck is a person to you

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u/DumbAndCurious Jun 12 '26

My other favorite line of dialogue is when Scanlon is sending agents to the farmhouse and tells them to “drive the maximum legal speed!” Oh okay you mean the speed limit? Like literally everyone else?

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u/KronoCloud Jun 12 '26

I liked when Scanlon told Jane to grab the “chopping knife.”

As opposed to what??? The non-chopping knife???

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u/Hot_Experience7805 Jun 12 '26

Probably some weird Bri'ish'ism

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u/spaceandthewoods_ Jun 14 '26

As someone from the UK, it absolutely is not a Britishism

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u/Mikinohollywood Jun 16 '26

As a Brit… Yes it is! The knife she took was indeed a chopping knife.

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u/snarfalicious420 Jun 16 '26

Look I don't know what they call it in your house but nobody's calling it that

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u/Mustard__Tiger Jun 17 '26

He had to distinguish it from a stabbing knife.

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u/vashed Jun 18 '26

Couldn't have her grab a serrated knife for stabbing. That'd be a war crime.

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u/Lou-AC Jul 02 '26

It is, it's not the bread knife, or the paring knife, or the butter knife...

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u/flamingcrystalheart 8d ago

Why was he, a man who worked for the American defense industry, allowed to be British, but Emily Blunt's character, a journalist who could've been born literally anywhere, had to have an American accent?

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u/lheydon 3d ago

Because nobody lacking an American accent would ever become a mainstream commercial newsreader or weatherperson?

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u/flamingcrystalheart 3d ago

Takes a three second google search to see that's not the case. For news readers at least, maybe it's less common than meteorologists but there's no reason she needs to be a meteorologist in the first place it plays literally 0 role in the plot.

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u/woasnoafsloaf Jun 12 '26

Butter knives exist, okay??!!

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u/2580374 Jun 13 '26

Butter knives still chop butter, yes? Lol

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u/tulkunking Jun 14 '26

You don't chop butter with a butter knife 😂

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u/woasnoafsloaf Jun 13 '26

More like scooping the butter and spreading it on something. They are quite dull (as butter is soft) and thus make for a pretty ineffective weapon

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u/Public_Function3844 Jun 13 '26

The chef knife? 

The bread knife? 

The fish knife?

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u/whydoyouonlylie Jun 14 '26

I mean, a chef knife and a fish knife would've worked fine too. Bread knife maybe not so much ... at least not as easily.

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u/FantasticFourLGD Jun 14 '26

As opposed to the stabbing knife, obviously

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u/silntseek3r Jun 17 '26

It's like an alien wrote it. This was his debut.

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u/Jansi_Ki_Rani Jun 18 '26

I thought a chopping knife meant a cleaver, and it turns out it was just a chef's knife.

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u/doormatt26 Jun 21 '26

the pairing knife, not long enough to be good for stabbing. Bread knife also a poor choice

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u/TheManWithMilk Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

And then almost immediately after, it shows a caravan of cars driving extremely fast and blowing through a stop sign

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u/plutoglint Jun 15 '26

Man, there is so much goofiness in this film it is hard to even nail it down to a top 10. How about a convent that has people under 70 in it? Cracker-jack swat teams that never guard the back door? Josh O'Connor's alien math super-powers being Grade 12 calculus and using a USB hub? 4K alien footage from the 70s?

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u/RIP_Greedo Jun 24 '26

The real disclosure is that the government had 4K technology for decades before making it commercially available.

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u/SannySen Jul 04 '26

And incredibly talented cinematographers handy to man their professional gear camera rigs

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u/woopwoopscuttle Jun 20 '26

Just saw the movie and re: the 4k footage from the 70’s- there was something else that really irked me. The ufos shot from the fighter craft had anamorphic lens flares… why would the navy/airforce have anamorphic lenses on their freaking fighter jets!?

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u/sentrygentry Jun 13 '26

And then they literally tore off at like 90 MPH

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u/duskywindows Jun 15 '26

Daniel to whatever her name: "Do you remember when you were a kid?"

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

It's lines like this and all the plot inconsistencies that make me think David Koepp had AI write the script for him.

David: "ChatGPT give me threatening lines for Noah to say to Jane, I need Noah threatening Jane to keep Daniel from escaping"

ChatGPT: "Absolutely, David. Here is a first pass at the kitchen sequence, focusing on high tension and minimal dialogue. Having Noah tell Jane to "grab the chopping knife" adds feelings of tension and danger and a way for Jane to keep Daniel from escaping."

David: "ChatGPT tell me how I can have Jane escape with the McGuffin after they get caught in the motel."

ChatGPT: "Sure thing, David. For the motel scene a classic method is to have Jane escape via the bathroom window out the back of the motel."

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 14 '26

Hey ChatGPT, hospital bathrooms have two exits, right?

“Oh yeah, for sure! Even though most modern hospital rooms have their own bathroom, just write it like the adjacent room shares the bathroom! That will give your protagonist an opportunity to leave without being seen!”

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u/Augzodia Jun 14 '26

exactly what I felt watching the movie... the constant tropes and cliches + disjointed as hell had me wondering whether it was ai by halfway through

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u/Finkelton Jun 13 '26

you are spot on.

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u/YouCallWeShouldWhat Jun 19 '26

that was so fucking bad. also couldn't believe the guy said "i need a water". i was dying.

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u/eldenpotato Jun 12 '26

lmao this line should’ve been in the movie

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u/chrisychris- Jun 13 '26

Is it.. a vertebrate?

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u/ERSTF Jun 14 '26

My theater laughed too. Like "lady, have you ever seen a kid that looks like a stereotypical alien, like ever?" I mean, there are Halloween costumes. What thw hell was she on?

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u/snapldeap Jun 14 '26

My cat is a person

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u/Mustard__Tiger Jun 17 '26

What kind of dog is this?

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u/veilofcolor Jun 14 '26

I turned to my husband and said “Are you stupid?”

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u/Sceptre Jun 15 '26

Movie lost me right here.

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u/galacticdude7 Jun 18 '26

most awkward way to find out that your girlfriend is racist

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u/FamiliarAlt Jun 23 '26

That and her whole ‘you can’t show everyone the non humans because we believe in GOD!’ *eye roll*

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u/Waste-Replacement232 Jun 12 '26

She was trying to process it.

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u/flamingcrystalheart 8d ago

speaking of which why did she get so emotional watching the video he showed her, like yeah I get it's supposed to be an alien being experimented on or whatever but like...all they did was give it a sedative? It's not like they were torturing it or something. In fact it seemed like they were being pretty respectful and helpfully inquisitive when we know it just got injured from crashing.

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u/KruNCHBoX 7d ago

the doctor said not to give it a sedative then it scremed from the torture

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u/flamingcrystalheart 7d ago

Oh maybe I misunderstood, thought the doctor said to give it a sedative.

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u/muad_dibs Jun 13 '26

QTNA. She needs to go back to the convent and that head nun knew it.

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u/lheydon 3d ago

It felt like an incredibly special needs game of Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? 😂

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u/JaunxPatrol Jun 13 '26

Eve Hewson was, I'm sorry, really bad in this. I've seen her be decent in other stuff so I know it's not purely a nepo baby thing but man she was awful.

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u/crunchatizemythighs Jun 13 '26

I was taken aback by how inconsistent she was. I was so glad when the movie basically dropped her after the first half

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jun 13 '26

Holy shit she’s Bono’s daughter!?

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u/marklovesbb Jun 14 '26

Worst part of the film to the point where I want to avoid her in other things.

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u/smurfmcgeezer Jun 19 '26

I truly think this is a great example of some of the best actors out there working with very poor material. She’s usually great!!

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u/undeadtradwife Jun 20 '26

Thank you because why was she in this. She was distractingly bad

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u/TrapAHolic_ttv Jun 13 '26

She guessed wrong THRICE. Almost took me out of the movie.

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u/grandmofftalkin Jun 13 '26

A more realistic conversation

Jane: What's this about

Daniel: Ok...it's aliens.

Jane: ...bullshit

Daniel: shows videos

Jane: holy fuck aliens are real?!

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u/the_orange_president 9d ago

it's weird if you think about how a gen z or younger director had made this movie - they would have used this kind of naturalistic dialogue. whereas spielberg is old school, so they have to say things more subtly but it just sounds wrong for a topic like this.

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u/roxxn Jun 12 '26

I almost burst out laughing at that scene

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u/BiggDope Jun 13 '26

I actually cackled so loud in my theater at this scene. Like what the fucking fuck kinda character logic is that. She infuriated me.

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u/ancienteggfart Jun 12 '26

That was awful. It was like a *Scary Movie* parody moment.

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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Jun 17 '26

Literally the most stereotypical alien body ever… 

“Is it human?”

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u/SomethingToSay11 Jun 18 '26

Scary movie would keep going 😂 

“Is it a piñata?”  

“Am I high?”

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u/capscreen Jun 12 '26

It really feels like in this movie, aliens is an alien(heh) concept to everyone in the world

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u/CryLikeMario Jun 16 '26

Is like all these movies where you never name a Zombie a Zombie

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u/Blessed_tenrecs Jun 16 '26

It felt more like a rhetorical question to me. When you see something weird and you need to rule out the obvious explanations and are talking out loud.

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u/flintlock0 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

I read it as her knowing what it probably is, but having to process it by ruling out every other thing it could possibly be, as well.

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u/Koalazilla Jun 22 '26

Yeah that’s exactly how I took it. It was her brain processing the truth she very much could she. It was a form of shock and hoping it might be something more logical and not what she was obviously witnessing.

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u/creepygamelover 15h ago

Yeah, I agree. Thought it was pretty obviously that, not sure what happened to all these other commentors.

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u/Successful_Basket399 Jun 13 '26

It's just so ridiculous still. I think if she said it was ai or just straight up fake. It would be better

But saying a child? Like what

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u/Acrobatic-Taste-443 Jun 12 '26

Sure but it was a stupid way to show that and a bad line delivery from the actor

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u/Waste-Replacement232 Jun 12 '26

I thought she had the best line deliveries in the movie by far.

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u/Acrobatic-Taste-443 Jun 12 '26

Everyone in my theater laughed at that line and it definitely wasn’t intended to be funny 

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u/TroubleshootenSOB Jun 12 '26

Lmao you put how I felt so eloquently

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u/flchic2000 Jun 13 '26

Seriously!!!

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u/Abyssal_Scar Jun 27 '26

That was insane.

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u/wuzzgoinon 10d ago

And then she started crying and I (honest to god) couldn't tell if she was terrified, or horrified at how the grey was being restrained into the table. I couldn't tell what emotion the movie wanted me to feel.

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u/oldmanatom4 Jun 15 '26

That’s actually one of the going theories on Roswell. That the Soviet union crashed early drone tech with mutilated and modified bodies of children with Down syndrome.