Disclosure Day (2026)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
[Rated PG-13] 2hr 25min
Sci-fi, Thriller
★★
On the run from a secret government organization, Daniel Kellner must reach his fellow whistleblowers with top secret files that expose the government’s alien coverups that have been happening for decades. Meanwhile, strange things start happening to meteorologist Margaret Fairchild, and the two of them find themselves working together in order to reveal the truth to the whole world.
This film has a lot of great ideas that just aren’t executed well at all. Most of the characters are incredibly incompetent despite their backgrounds indicating otherwise, yet they’re constantly able to navigate through various situations due to pure luck. This makes the narrative feel very frustrating and contrived at times, and it doesn’t help that the reasoning for their unintelligent actions is rarely explained. As a result, the plot falls apart when held up to any level of scrutiny, and the themes come across as being very superficial. This is really unfortunate because the messages that the film is trying to convey are genuinely fantastic, and there are significant parallels to actual files in our government’s possession that should be released to the public. The only standout elements that enhance the overall experience are Emily Blunt’s exceptional performance as Margaret and John Williams’ brilliant score, as nothing else in the film even comes close to being as good as those.
I only recommend Disclosure Day for fans of Spielberg’s filmmaking style and anyone who enjoys most of his other movies. All it really offers is a generic thriller with sci-fi elements that don’t amount to much at all. The uneven pacing and senseless narrative don’t do the film any favors either, but its themes are still important with their universal and timely applications to real world issues.
Disclosure Day is now playing in theaters. Click here to watch the Official Trailer.
– Review by Will Hopper