Great Filmmaking, Lazy Philosophy: How ‘Disclosure Day’ Settles For Straw Men

Steven Spielberg has spent much of his career asking audiences to believe in the impossible.

In “E.T.,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “A.I.,” he treated the unknown with awe rather than fear.

“Disclosure Day” continues that fascination with first contact, but this time Spielberg aims higher than simply telling another alien story.

He ...