Title – Disclosure Day (2026)

Director – Steven Spielberg (Ready Player One)

Cast – Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell

Plot – A group of everyday citizens including tech wizard Dr. Daniel Kellner (O’Connor) and weatherwoman Margaret Fairchild (Blunt) get embroiled in a scenario that could change the course of human history as we know it.  

“We deserve to know”

Review by Eddie on 12/06/2026

Disclaimer – This is a spoiler free review.

Steven Spielberg and science fiction, a match made in movie-going heaven.

From the wonderment of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the unforgettable warm embrace that was E.T, the thrill of the chase in Minority Report, the before it’s time A.I, the fun escapism of Ready Player One and the set piece extravaganza of The War of the Worlds, Spielberg’s work in the sci-fi genre had given many much cause for hope when it was announced his newest feature was the shrouded in secrecy Disclosure Day.

Doing a fantastic marketing job right up until its release at keeping things very much under wraps about just what we could expect from Spielberg’s latest collaboration with screenwriter David Koepp (a writer who misses as much as he hits), it saddens me greatly to report that the overriding feeling I had walking out from the release day screening of Disclosure Day can only be described as an overarching flatness, having just witnessed an unexpectedly dull and instantly forgettable offering from a master of his craft.

A film that is loaded across its bloated two and half hour running time with a series of fascinating questions and possibilities it feels unable to answer or explore to a great extent, Disclosure Day is mostly an unexciting cat and mouse chase film that happens to harbour in its core a desire to present to us some big questions about humankinds’ existence in the wider universe, but in this dream to present to us a thinking man’s sci-fi, Spielberg and Koepp forgot to have fun along the way, as their overly sentimental and sometimes downright trite script works against the films chances of success.

Throwing us into an initially vague situation that raises the pulse levels and engages us with the routes it may be taking us on to an unknown destination, the glimmers of hope present early on are steadily covered up as we march on our way here, thrown into a repetitive feeling flow as Josh O’Connor Dr. Daniel Kellner and Emily Blunt’s weatherwoman Margaret Fairchild go on the run as Colin Firth’s generic government suit Noah Scanlon pursues them for the sake of national security, with only a small moment of a car vs a train able to slightly raise our pulse levels.

As Spielberg’s more than capable cast try to work with the material they’ve been given, with O’Connor and Firth saddled with rather unspectacular roles, Blunt attempts to breathe life and energy into her performance as the thrown into the deep end Margaret but with Spielberg’s and Koepp’s script very far from where Disclosure Day needed it to be, no one was ever going to single-handedly save this hammy affair from itself.

If anything was going to save Spielberg’s disappointment from the blandness that seeps through it, it was going to come in the form of the much talked about finale that has been hidden from all marketing materials in the lead up to Disclosure Day’s release, but unfortunately for all, it’s a mostly cringe affair that once again raises a bunch of fantastic scenarios and questions then leaves it at that, making for a pay-off that fails to make all that’s come before feel worth it.

I’ve seen commentary online about how a single appearance of a news anchor in the film’s final act raises more emotion and performance power than the entirety of the rest of the film and it’s hard to disagree with this sentiment, as this scene stands out from an otherwise drab “blockbuster” that pales in comparison to Spielberg’s other sci-fi works and his other big-budgeted event films that have more often than not provided us with at the most basic levels a feeling of fun and adventure that Disclosure Day is desperately missing.

Final Say –

After what’s been a significantly strong run of 2026 event films so far, Disclosure Day arrives to remind us all that even the most talented of filmmakers can fail us, marking Spielberg’s latest feature down as a big swing and a miss that is unlikely to gain much public goodwill.

2 Steve Carell like reporting meltdowns out of 5