The first reactions to Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi drama Disclosure Day (2026) have arrived, and if we are to believe them, there is every reason to give this mysterious story a chance next summer. A reviewer who saw the film this week even calls it Spielberg’s best in twenty years.
Tipping point
In Disclosure Day the world reaches a historic tipping point as governments prepare for an unprecedented revelation that will change reality forever. As officials try to maintain control, more and more indications are filtering through that the truth is bigger, more complex and more disruptive than the public ever suspected.
Blank boarding
During an interview in the run-up to the release of his latest film, Spielberg already said that he has a real experience in store for his audience; the less you know in advance, the better it is. Do the first reactions from mostly American reviewers reinforce that teaser?
Sincere suspicion
What is striking about the film in advance is that Spielberg no longer seems to approach the subject of aliens and extraterrestrial life as something imaginative, like the wonderful creature ET in the eighties. “I believe much more strongly now than when I was making it Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) that we are not the only intelligent civilization in the universe,” the director says in a snippet that is part of the trailer. And that is not a publicity stunt to sell the film more exciting; this spring, the Jurassic Park maker indicated that he had a “strong suspicion” in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, provided proof, would you be afraid?
From June 11 you can go to the cinema yourself to see the enthusiastic reactions to it Disclosure Day on point are.
Beeld: Still ‘Disclosure Day’ via Filmdepot/Universal Studios
