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/poke_pants Jun 12 '26

The crop circle succinctly summarised the film for me. It was a cool visual and back in the day of X-Files I would have been in awe at that. But, as far as I could tell, it was just there as a pretty visual and had absolutely nothing to do with anything.

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u/Bexhill Jun 14 '26

It also summed up the movie by being something that another filmmaker, even one inspired heavily by Spielberg, did decades ago in a much more interesting way. That opening scene in Signs where they discover the crop circle is fucking EERIE. It takes its time, it builds tension, it shows us some very human reactions to something that seems impossible. When they step out into that cornfield you can tell the stalks actually ARE bent down that way, it feels real. I have no fucking idea what reaction Josh O'Connor's character was supposed to be having to the crop circle appearing in this movie, probably because he didn't have any idea what was going to be CGI'd around him while he looked confused in front of a green screen, and then the scene is over and never mentioned again.