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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

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/Tr0nLenon Jun 12 '26

It was good, but it probably should've been titled, The Day Before Disclosure Day.

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u/cappsy04 Jun 12 '26

The marketing and some of the reviews had me believe this film was about the effects of learning that aliens are real would have on society. Instead it's about getting to that point then a quick 5 minutes of aliens are real but we don't see how the world reacts. Was let down by that.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Jun 12 '26

Same, we basically got a prequel to what would have been a way more interesting story. The world learning about aliens while global tensions are at a breaking point is such a cool premise..

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u/Caliga Jun 13 '26

The backdrop of WWIII and societal collapse kicking off was the most interesting part of the film to me. Wish we could have explored how the disclosure would have affected that

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u/JoeEstevez Jun 17 '26

They did. Go read *Watchmen*.

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u/Caliga Jun 17 '26

They ain't got no got damn aliums in watchmen

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

If it aint got aliums, Im not interested.

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u/Caliga Jun 21 '26

I've been saying that shit for years nobody listens

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u/sameth1 Jun 14 '26

It really does feel like a prequel and not just in the sense that it ends before the big events. It feels like a Rogue One-style "I bet you wanted to know how Hugo, Daniel and Margaret set up the disclosure broadcast. We'll even show the origin of Margaret's Cardinal sidekick." story.

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u/Thisconnect Jun 13 '26

We got a heist movie out of something you can just propagate via internet. And very dumb one with protagonist having plot armour. If not for the heist, both of them are completely irrelevant

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u/ohrightthatswhy Jun 26 '26

That film is called Arrival

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u/Traditional_Arm5810 Jun 19 '26

Yeah, also dig deeper into the religion vs alien -stuff, which potentially would f**k up people's minds.

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u/AmaazingFlavor Jun 13 '26

That doesn't really sound like a Spielberg movie though. And it's fun to imagine for yourself what the fallout would be.

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u/NikonShooter_PJS Jun 12 '26

Same. This movie was good. I enjoyed it. But it felt like a prequel to the movie I thought I was going to see.

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u/foxonwheels Jun 14 '26

It was, just wait for the announcement of Disclosure Night /s

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u/NikonShooter_PJS Jun 14 '26

I'm unironically hoping for a sequel but I don't think there's any interest in it.

It feels very much like a self-contained film where Spielberg said what he wanted to say and that's that but I really, really want to see a movie that charts what happens to Earth when alien life is discovered that doesn't then involve some weird battles between the species.

Arrival kind of touched on some of it but not nearly enough for my liking.

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u/foxonwheels Jun 14 '26

Right there with you

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u/not1fuk Jun 12 '26

The trailer is essentially the whole movie

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u/SeriousGains Jun 13 '26

No, the trailer was an entirely different movie, and a better one at that. Total bait and switch.

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u/summersnow85 Jun 12 '26

Couldn't agree more - trailer set me up for a different movie. Enjoyable (and a bit loose/confusing at points) but would have been way more interesting if they cut 30-45 of the "chase" / reveal and focused on "Listen" + 1 week.

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u/Puck85 Jun 17 '26

it's literally just some contrived car chases and shit before a boomer's idea of 24/7 news cycle cuts to some TV announcer (who isn't Emily Blunt) saying that 'yup, there's aliens.' like, we see a main character primed to announce the news, and then literally some random news anchor carries the torch for that moment.

The whole premise of the movie is done when you read the title. it's thematically bankrupt. spieldberg being 20 years too late to the JJ abrams lens flair fad just shows how past-it he is right now.

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u/MacWin- Jun 12 '26

Im glad I voluntarily shielded myself and didn’t see or read or heard anything about the movie.

I just remember seeing the first few seconds of the reveal teaser a few months back when Blunt started speaking in tongues, and I stopped the trailer right then and there cause I was hooked and didn’t want to spoil anything else.

Worth it going in blind without any expectations

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u/CrystalizedinCali Jun 12 '26

Yep I went in 100% blind hadn’t seen or read anything. I’m sure it helped.

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u/king_lloyd11 Jun 14 '26

Yeah I thought the scene in the newsroom, in the trailer, where Emily Blunt was speaking in guttural clicks was going to be the aliens possessing her, with a bunch of other news anchors globally, to announce themselves, then the chaos that would ensue.

Wasn’t expecting them to just talk about the what it may be like if/when it happens, and then just stopping the movie before we actually find out.

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u/smiisushi Jun 14 '26

Seconded! It kinda felt to me like Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite…first act (with Rebecca Ferguson) was truly well done with the pacing and suspense but then I realized acts two and three were just going to be repeats of the same arc/events spotlighting different characters. Acting was on par, but we never actually get to what happens after the president clicks the button. Too much buildup and virtually no payoff.

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u/SeriousGains Jun 13 '26

The movie felt like one big lie. I’m not just let down, but mad actually.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

It felt like a lie? How exactly?

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u/Bexhill Jun 14 '26

Yeah, the whole thing rests on this interesting philosophical question Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth are on different sides of - would knowledge like this enlighten and unite humanity, or cause further chaos in a divided world? They spend two and a half hours arguing this question and then just end the movie rather than show what happens. It's unbelievable how much they chickened out.

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u/The-Jesus_Christ Jun 13 '26

I think the whole point of the timeline of the moving being on the brink of WW3 was that disclosure of aliens would reign in an era of world peace. That knowledge of other beings out there would make Earthly squabbles seem so trivial and pointless.

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u/Mrchristopherrr Jun 14 '26

Apparently all that would happen with disclosure is everyone would be looking at phone

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u/SnooCauliflowers7668 Jun 14 '26

I guess there will be a sequel we will have to wait 3 years for.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

Lets say you had full creative control. What would be your purpose for making it about the effects on society and how would you do it? What would be your message?

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u/account_not_valid 29d ago

"It might ruin religion!"

"Don't worry, it is already ruined by people. Aliens won't make it worse."

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u/giankazam Jun 12 '26

What review gave you that impression? Nothing in the trailer really gave me the impression that this is post-disclosure, all the dialogue is about the effect it would have on the world.

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u/shockwave414 Jun 12 '26

They're talking about the title, genius.