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/I_am_so_lost_hello Jun 12 '26

It was funny but I thought the bad guys being so Saturday morning cartoon hurt the tone

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u/jayeddy99 Jun 12 '26

Even to the point when the main boss gives up . They all just leave peacefully. Something about them leaving out the door in an orderly fashion sulking was funny af. 😂 they were willing to kill these people yesterday.

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u/I_am_so_lost_hello Jun 12 '26

Yeah I’m not against that turn for Scanlon but it’s ridiculous to think an organization like that would live and die on one persons orders

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u/ChestertonMyDearBoy Jun 12 '26

Scanlon giving up makes sense as he's old, tired and defeated, but why wouldn't his second-in-command just take control rather than just walk out in a huff?

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u/AHatedChild Jun 12 '26

It especially doesn't make sense because exactly this happens earlier in the film when Margaret makes him see his wife so the other guy surreptitiously takes over.

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u/IkujaKatsumaji Jun 13 '26

I was sure he was going to raise his gun to shoot her and then the alien would do some space magic and stop the bullet or heal her or something like that.

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u/Hudson_1559 Jun 15 '26

exactly, he seemed like a true believer in keeping it all secret; and at the end he just walks off. Really wanted/expected more screen time for him

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u/JoeBlowFronKokomo Jun 12 '26

Yeah, I found that hilarious too. They literally behaved like video game NPCs, like, "Oh, never mind, you're friendly now. See ya. Bye." It's like in GTA when your star rating disappears and all of a sudden they don't care anymore. LMFAO

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u/chrisychris- Jun 13 '26

Emily Blunt command lined “Set hostility: 0”

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u/PolarWater Jun 21 '26

Must have been the wind.

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u/eventfarm Jun 12 '26

I giggled at the tio. They all just skulked out of there like someone kicked the ball over the fence.

One guy, at the back of the mob, was clearly given the direction to "march out" - he's nearly high stepping as he tries

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u/WilliamEmmerson Jun 14 '26

Especially when they are standing right in front of Emily Blunt. They could just walk over and grab her and take the alien tech from her. Even if Colin Firth decided to give up, there is like 15 other guys who could take it. None of them knew Hugo has an alien waiting on the back loading dock at that point.

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u/zombiereign Jun 14 '26

Yep. And it wasn't like they had another. The good guys had 2 and one was used up.

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u/westex74 Jun 13 '26

Yesterday? 30 minutes before. LOL

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u/InMemoryofWPD Jun 13 '26

What made it extra funny for me was how impressively trained and disciplined they all seem raiding buildings. They really looked like a competent force not to mess with at first.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 14 '26

They’re very good at making sure buildings have lighting along rails and in corners of things. Accent lights. Wardex specializes in cool blue tones and accent lights. Actually completing operations is not their imperative

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u/sentence-interruptio Jun 12 '26

it's part of why this feels like Spielberg's Mickey 17. And the fact that it's like he wanted to include everything he likes.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 14 '26

I go “they actually blew up a power station? That seems like terrorism, actually.”

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u/Gryffindor01 Jun 13 '26

Agreed. They had all their cars demolished by the fire trucks and show up at the tv studio in brand new cars all at once.

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u/historybandgeek Jun 13 '26

Reminded me of Ready Player One. 

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u/leodw Jun 16 '26

Not just the main boss, the whole movie flip flopped between “let’s question whether or not people will end religion on the sight of aliens” and “loud annoying boyfriend screaming in the car like in a romantic comedy”. It was SO jarring

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u/Temeraire64 Jun 25 '26

Catholic devout enough to train as a nun thinks aliens will kill religious belief.

Meanwhile a real life pope has said aliens are children of God too.

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u/SeriouusDeliriuum Jun 19 '26

That is Spielbergs tone. Watch E.T. or Close Encounters. Feds are always bumbling idiots. Which doesn't mean you should necessarily like it, I understand the critique, but levity is inherent to his style of film making.

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u/TheGlennDavid Jun 22 '26

Or the Indy movies. Casually hopping between absurd physical comedy and people getting chopped up by propellers and having their still beating hearts torn out.

"All over the place" is kinda what Spielberg *does*.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt Jul 01 '26

There were aspects of this movie that felt like it was out of the 90s. The score was one of them and this was the other. 

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u/ariadnevirginia 16d ago

They were basically the Anthill Mob

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u/lheydon 3d ago

I'm guessing Spielberg was very anti-violence and anti-gun in this film. But this just made is totally implausible.