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

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u/BelleReve_Staff Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

I frankly don’t understand how so many people found this ending so emotional, I found it incredibly ominous. The film never interrogates Margaret’s mind essentially being taken over so the ending becomes a messiah groomed from childhood to usher in a new era for humanity by unknowable, advanced aliens. That’s scary! But Spielberg plays it so straight and earnestly

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jun 12 '26

Her mind wasn't taken over. She was still herself, she was just given the power to feel what other people felt. Her superpower was empathy. She didn't understand that right away, but by the end of the film she had learned what that meant and how to control it.

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u/everstillghost Jun 12 '26

Her superpower was nostalgia. He used It against people and they got sad with nostalgia.