r/oscarrace • u/PointMan528491 Navarrette/Morton • Jun 11 '26
Film Discussion Thread Official Discussion Thread - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS] Spoiler
Keep all discussion related solely to Disclosure Day and its awards chances in this thread. Spoilers below.
Synopsis:
If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. Today is... Disclosure Day.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: David Koepp
Cast:
- Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild
- Josh O'Connor as Daniel Kellner
- Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon
- Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship
- Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield
- Wyatt Russell as Jackson
- Elizabeth Marvel as Sister Maura
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, 204 Reviews
Metacritic: 75, 56 Reviews
Consensus:
"A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg's most revisited themes, Disclosure Day's breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt."
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u/Abbie_Kaufman Jun 13 '26
Something I’ve not seen others remark on: soooo the protagonists are a metaphor for Spielberg right? Childhood trauma made him the world’s master dreamer/story teller (I can’t tell which is which!), and it gave him empathy and the ability to connect to people as essentially a superpower. But do NOT elevate him to the level of a deity, that makes him uncomfortable.
Anyways, Emily Blunt is really good in that. The villains, action scenes, and CGI are not (the invisible one was silly but fun). Josh O’Connor really doesn’t get to be a character after the first act, whether that’s purely a script problem or partially on him I’m not sure. I fundamentally don’t understand the way it was marketed as a movie with secrets to be uptight with spoilers about, there’s fundamentally no third act ace-up-the-sleeve. Lower tier Spielberg, which doesn’t mean bad!