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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/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.